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globalize

American  
[gloh-buh-lahyz] / ˈgloʊ bəˌlaɪz /
especially British, globalise

verb (used with object)

  • globalizes,
    present (3rd person singular)
  • globalized,
    past participle,  past
  • globalizing
    present participle
  1. to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide.

    efforts to globalize the auto industry.


globalize British  
/ ˈɡləʊbəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to put into effect or spread worldwide

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of globalize

First recorded in 1940–45; global + -ize

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The partnership is the latest in Disney’s effort to further globalize its streaming service.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

The U.S. didn’t globalize primarily by exporting products.

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

Driving the shift, in part, is a push among investors and shareholder groups to globalize corporate standards in managing risks to a company’s reputation or financial performance.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2025

It later mentions the new entity’s plan to create financial returns, “including through targeted mergers and acquisitions to globalize the sport.”

From Washington Times Jun. 27, 2023

The first show in the United States in decades devoted to postwar Indian painting continues a welcome, belated effort in Western museums to globalize art history after 1945.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2018

As much as anything, “My Girlfriend’s Wedding” globalizes a quotation attributed to the screenwriter Bob Schneider: Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2021

As television globalizes and cable options proliferate, Seinfeld’s cult status has allowed it to make a few new inroads into international markets.

From The Verge Jun. 24, 2015

As television globalizes, we’ve come to recognize the characteristics of the British cop show, the Canadian cop show and the Scandinavian cop show.

From New York Times Oct. 5, 2014

We find great value and opportunity over the long term for this company, as they continue to improve and modernize their fleets, which they, in turn, lease primarily internationally as the world globalizes and grows.

From Forbes Aug. 26, 2014

Instead, shipping taxes show up as increased insurance costs and longer routes, which compound costs across globalized supply chains.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

In the late 20th century, as globalized trade patterns grew, U.S. farmers struggled with agricultural prices below their production costs.

From Salon Nov. 28, 2025

But in a globalized economy, shopping for 100% American-made goods is virtually impossible.

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

More than a century after its opening, the canal remains an unparalleled triumph of infrastructure and a cornerstone of our globalized economy, in which 80% of trade moves by sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

A bachelor’s degree, not a year or two of courses, tends to determine a person’s place in today’s globalized, computerized economy.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Mr. Cook delivered the iPhone form factor from scratch by globalizing supply chains.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

Netflix’s Drive to Survive series has proved similarly transformational for another rapidly globalizing sport: Formula 1.

From Slate Jun. 10, 2023

Ironically, scholars were constructing this Black canon just as literary studies was deconstructing the canon of Western literature as a whole: globalizing it, feminizing it, queering it, racially diversifying it.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2023

That Oscar-winning popular hit spun a much more upbeat story about a young man escaping poverty and realizing his destiny against the backdrop of a rapidly globalizing India.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2021

When I said earlier that this era of Globalization 3.0 is about individuals globalizing themselves, that was largely made possible by the Apple and Windows-enabled IBM PCs and their many clones.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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