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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
democratize
verb
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▪ At the same time our study found that although the flattening of the hierarchy was apparent, that did not automatically democratize.
▪ It was hypothesized here that the flattening of the hierarchy was apparent, but this did not automatically democratize.
▪ The success of President Mohammad Khatami's brave attempt to democratize the country hangs in the balance.
▪ There were efforts to democratize school management structures, encouraged by the establishment of communal villages and co-operatives.
▪ They could democratize the royal professions that lord it over our health, education, welfare and criminal justice bureaucracies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Democratize

Democratize \De*moc"ra*tize\v. t. To render democratic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
democratize

1798 (transitive), 1840 (intransitive), from French démocratiser, from démocratie (see democracy). Greek demokratizein meant "to be on the democratic side."

Wiktionary
democratize

vb. To make democratic.

WordNet
democratize
  1. v. become (more) democratic; of nations [syn: democratise]

  2. introduce democratic reforms; of nations [syn: democratise]

Usage examples of "democratize".

Russians and others who saw its content as a threat to their geopolitical interests and its democratizing language as arrogant, mendacious and hypocritical.

Horizon is a sort of modern democratized version of this (compare its general tone with that of the Criterion of ten years ago), and even Horizon keeps going only with difficulty.

If we carry the war to a destructive conclusion, the British Empire will either be lost, or democratized, or pawned to America.

And surely the only completely safe course for them and mankind--hard and nearly impossible though it may seem at the present juncture--is for them to lock up into one unity with a democratized Germany and with all the other states of the earth into one peace-maintaining League.

TV had democratized him, and made him available for transference to the masses.

That small but intrepid group of men so full of enthusiasm in 1945, certain that their far-reaching vision for a truly democratized Japan, free from feudal encumbrances, was the correct choice for the country.

The repercussions which are probably happening in Australia, however, may do something towards democratizing the conduct of the war.

There was always the possibility, therefore, of democratizing the war without losing it in the process.

But, surprisingly, Sterling doesn't emphasize the democratizing potential of such universal access to information (so common a position among the Internet crowd).

Like them or not, guns were a leveling phenomenon, a democratizing one, in the long run.

There were young couples, retirees, pretty young women, middle-aged women in stretch pants and cardigans, leatherfaced cowboys fresh from the range and soft-faced rich men on junkets from far cities, secretaries, truckers, executives, doctors, ex-cons and off-duty cops, hustlers and dreamers, escapees from every social background, drawn together by the hope and thrill of organized games of chance, surely the most democratizing industry on earth.