suburbanize
English
Etymology
suburban + -ize
Verb
suburbanize (third-person singular simple present suburbanizes, present participle suburbanizing, simple past and past participle suburbanized)
- (transitive) To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
- 2007 August 27, Isabel Kershner, “The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity”, in New York Times:
- Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.
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Related terms
- suburbanization