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GLOBALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Example:
the globalization of the communication industry
Synonyms:
globalisation; globalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("globalization" is a kind of...):
economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth, or, according to Carmine Gorga, Ph.D., author of the book 'The Economic Process', the process of production of real wealth, distribution of ownership rights over real and monetary wealth, and consumption or expenditure of monetary wealth to purchase real wealth)
Derivation:
globalize (make world-wide in scope or application)
