Meanings
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of metropolize
- pluralplural of metropolis
For this reason, colonial appendages of old European states were, for most metropolizes, no longer economically viable or sustainable.
2015, Nicholas K. Githuku, Mau Mau Crucible of War, page 22 more examples
Finally, the strikingly large number of street and working children in the Third World metropolizes, as well as the disadvantageous environmental, societal and economical conditions faced by the poor urban population, call for immediate recapitulation and informed action in this area.
1995, Ana Cristina Leonardos, Effective Strategies and Approaches for Reaching Street and Working Children Through Education, page 3Herewith we wanted to point at the need to consider the place-based particularities of different metropolizes in policy processes of European urban development.
2017, Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Second Rank Cities in Europe
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