GLOBALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does globalisation mean? 

• GLOBALISATION (noun)
  The noun GLOBALISATION has 1 sense:

1. growth to a global or worldwide scale

  Familiarity information: GLOBALISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBALISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Growth to a global or worldwide scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

globalisation; globalization

Context example:

the globalization of the communication industry

Hypernyms ("globalisation" is a kind of...):

economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth, or, according to Carmine Gorga, Ph.D., author of the book 'The Economic Process', the process of production of real wealth, distribution of ownership rights over real and monetary wealth, and consumption or expenditure of monetary wealth to purchase real wealth)

Derivation:

globalise (make world-wide in scope or application)

 Context examples 

The legend of Erik the Red itself may mask what Barrett calls “ecological globalisation”: the chasing of natural resources as supply dwindles.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)