Meaning

To urbanize; to center or focus on the city..

Definitions by Sense

1. To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.
2. To develop into a city or urban area.
3. (obsolete) To visit the city.

Example Sentences

Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.

Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.

Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections.

Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.

Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.

I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.

Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.

Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”

Word Forms

• metropolizes
• metropolizing
• metropolized

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When Should You Use Metropolize?

Use metropolize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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