GLOBALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does globalize mean? 

• GLOBALIZE (verb)
  The verb GLOBALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make world-wide in scope or application

  Familiarity information: GLOBALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they globalize    ... he / she / it globalizes   
Past simple: globalized   
Past participle: globalized   
-ing form: globalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make world-wide in scope or application

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

globalise; globalize

Context example:

Markets are being increasingly globalized

Hypernyms (to "globalize" is one way to...):

broaden; extend; widen (extend in scope or range or area)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

globalization (growth to a global or worldwide scale)

 Context examples 

The unprecedented lethality of a single disease affecting an entire vertebrate class highlights the threat from the spread of novel pathogens in a globalized world.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)