Metropolize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

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

  2. 2
    To develop into a city or urban area.

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

  3. 3
    To visit the city. obsolete

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

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

Etymology

From metropolis + -ize.

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