globalisation
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bə noun
1.
the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
2.
worldwide integration and development: Globablization has resulted in the loss of some individual cultural identities.
Also, especially British, glob·al·i·sa·tion.
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globalization or globalisation (ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| 1. | the process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications |
| 2. | the emergence since the 1980s of a single world market dominated by multinational companies, leading to a diminishing capacity for national governments to control their economies |
| 3. | the process by which a company, etc, expands to operate internationally |
| globalisation or globalisation | |
| —n | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| globalization or globalisation (ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications |
| 2. | the emergence since the 1980s of a single world market dominated by multinational companies, leading to a diminishing capacity for national governments to control their economies |
| 3. | the process by which a company, etc, expands to operate internationally |
| globalisation or globalisation | |
| —n | |
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globalisation
In 2000 the media were full of references to globalization of the economy, communications-even politics and military affairs. Large crowds turned out to protest meetings such as that of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Wash., in 1999 or called attention to International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies in granting loans to struggling economies. What were these protests all about?
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Example sentences
There are many components to the globalisation of art.
Globalisation is entering a new phase, with emerging-market companies now competing furiously against rich-country ones.
Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical goods and services around the world.
From there he was an early observer and commentator on the phenomenon of globalisation.
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