metropolize

present singular third person metropolizes · participle present metropolizing · participle past metropolized · past metropolized

1. transitiveTo urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

   Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.

   1987, Telecommunications Abstracts, page 14

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   Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.

   2003, Richard G. Harris, North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada

   Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections.

   2014, Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761, page 16

2. transitiveTo develop into a city or urban area.

   Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.

   1959, Ima Honaker Herron, The small town in American literature, page 364

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   Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.

   1967, Today's Health - Volume 45, Issues 1-6, page 26

   I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.

   1997, South Carolina Wildlife - Volume 44, page 7

3. intransitiveobsoleteTo visit the city.

   Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.

   1866, American Journal of Numismatics - Volumes 1-3, page 4

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   Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”

   1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, page 176