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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
militarized
adjective
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▪ The medical model of militarized efficiency was carried over into key areas of civil society.
▪ This close to Christmas, the wild West End was a militarized zone for private transport, even taxis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
militarized

militarized \militarized\ adj. 1. Equipped with eapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized.

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militarized

vb. (en-past of: militarize)

WordNet
militarized

adj. issued military arms [syn: militarised]

Usage examples of "militarized".

The militarized crews demanded merchanter privileges and access to bars, against some stationer authorities who tried to put them under military discipline.

The whole conception of the militarized continental state, with its secret police, its censored literature and its conscript labour, is utterly different from that of the loose maritime democracy, with its slums and unemployment, its strikes and party politics.

For some time they had been building up a picture of a belligerent and militarized Earth from the accounts forwarded by the mysterious "organization," none of which had mentioned the Shapieron.

They militarized and formed a totalitarian regime that imposed itself by force on a large portion of the planet before the other nations could muster the strength to resist.

Ever since America had militarized its borders soon after the March 2006 attacks, the movement of illegal aliens across the southern border had been dramatically reduced.

The same is probably true of Stalin's militarized version of Socialism.

We the unrepresented People of the United States are as much victims of this militarized government as the Panamanians, Iraqis, or Somalians.

Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg told Truman that he could have his militarized economy only if he first “scared the hell out of the American people” that the Russians were coming.