Etymology

Floridization

Flo·rid·i·za·tion
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Today it means: The process of coming to resemble the US state of Florida in some respect. Full definition →

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The story

From Florida + -ization (suffix denoting the act, process, or result of doing something). Sense 2 (“phenomenon of the percentage of seniors in a specific region progressively increasing as the population ages”) refers to the sizable number of retirees who settle in the US state.

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