Continentalize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Continentalize is a verb meaning To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.
Meaning
To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.
More Meanings
- To spread throughout the continent.
- To make or become more culturally European.
- To visit Europe.
- To make into a continent.
Example Sentences
He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed.
In defense of the treaties, it may be stated that they will continentalize the Monroe doctrine, that in a case like that cited above, all the Americas will unite to drive out the intruder.
The increased continental consciousness of multinationals has pushed them to continentalize their operations; that is, rationalize manufacturing and other functions on a continental basis.
Used in connection with Christianity, as in the title of a well-known book, Pan-Americanism in Its Religious Aspect, it provincializes, or at best, continentalizes what is by nature universal.
Word Forms
- continentalizes
- continentalizing
- continentalized
- continentalise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include continentalise, widen, territorialize, internationalize, territorialise, globalize.
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