metropolise

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A form of metropolize — To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

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Meanings

verbmetropolise (third-person singular simple present metropolises, present participle metropolising, simple past and past participle metropolised)

present singular third person metropolises · participle present metropolising · participle past metropolised · past metropolised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of metropolize.

    Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.

    2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development
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    Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.

    1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann

    In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.

    2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194
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APA

metropolise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metropolise

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“metropolise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metropolise. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metropolise,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metropolise.

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