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globalization

Word definitions for globalization in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Globalization or Globalisation is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views , products, ideas, and other aspects of culture . Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive , steamship , jet engine , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1961, from globalize , which is attested at least from 1953 in various senses; the main modern one, with reference to global economic systems, emerged 1959.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. growth to a global or worldwide scale; "the globalization of the communication industry" [syn: globalisation ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of globalisation English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Globalization can often lead to the destruction of local customs and cultures. ▪ Globalization has brought very little real benefit to developing countries. ▪ Globalization often means that poorer countries become too ...

Usage examples of globalization.

Simplifying a great deal, one could argue that postmodernist discourses appeal primarily to the winners in the processes of globalization and fundamentalist discourses to the losers.

The revolting masses, their desire for liberation, their experiments to construct alternatives, and their instances of constituent power have all at their best moments pointed toward the internationalization and globalization of relationships, beyond the divisions of national, colonial, and imperialist rule.

The French strikes called above all for a new notion of the public, a new construction of public space against the neoliberal mechanisms of privatization that accompany more or less everywhere the project of capitalist globalization.

Because I had spent a lifetime trying to bring together my own parallel lives and had been raised to value all people, and, as governor, had seen both the bright and dark sides of globalization, I felt I understood where my country was and how we needed to move into the new century.

Samuel Brittan, Financial Times columnist and globalization knight errant, declares that new world capital markets and free trade have “.

I had tried to put a more human face on globalization by urging other nations to join us in building a more integrated world of shared responsibilities, shared benefits, and shared values.

Wackenhut has become the leading operator of choice in the globalization of privatized punishment based on its stellar experience in the US.

Such distinction does not apply to the strike on the Pentagon: it houses the supreme military command-the ultima ratio regmun-of capitalist globalization even if it entails, in the Pentagon’.