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GLOBALIZATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does globalization mean?
• GLOBALIZATION (noun)
The noun GLOBALIZATION has 1 sense:
1. growth to a global or worldwide scale
Familiarity information: GLOBALIZATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("globalization" 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:
globalize (make world-wide in scope or application)
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