Balkanisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Balkanization. UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable

    ""For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences.""

Synonyms

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cantonizationcantonizationfragmentation

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""For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences.""

Etymology

From Balkan + -isation.

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