Indigenization
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˌdɪdʒənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Indigenization is a noun meaning The act of making something or someone more indigenous; adaptation to native or local culture.
Meaning
The act of making something or someone more indigenous; adaptation to native or local culture.
More Meanings
- The capability to manufacture a product, or supply a service independently within a country instead of relying on foreign manufactures or suppliers.
Example Sentences
An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.
[A] reverse process of what we might call indigenisation also occurred, in which the freed convicts and their families and their descendants took on some of the values and mentality of Aboriginal people.
Word Forms
- indigenizations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include localisation, localization, indigenity, indigeneship, indigen, indigena.
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