internationalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make international, as in scope or character.
a local conflict that was internationalized into a major war.
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to place or bring under international control.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to make international
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to put under international control
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of internationalize
First recorded in 1860–65; international + -ize
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Countries are also introducing measures to further internationalize their own currencies.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The deal comes less than a year after New Zealand became the first country from outside of the European region to join Horizon Europe, as the European Union seeks to internationalize the program.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 24, 2024
Issuance of renminbi-denominated debt has reached $10.4 billion so far this year, a record, helping to internationalize China’s currency.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
“Joan and I are starting to have some conversations about ‘might there be scope, in a future PST ART, to think of ways to explicitly internationalize it,’” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
In the first place, there is an effort being made to internationalize labor unions.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
Despite some demographic unevenness, Korean food in general is becoming more internationalized.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
Qin said China will “unswervingly promote high-level opening up” and create a “market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment,” according to the statement.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2023
“China welcomes foreign companies to invest and do business in China. We are committed to building an internationalized, market-oriented and law-based business environment,” said Mao Ning.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
“World War II internationalized California. We became the Gibraltar of the Pacific,” the late California historian Kevin Starr once told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
The horror of the unknown danger would paralyse the war, batteries would be deserted and the trenches would quickly be internationalized.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
As a Shanghai official in the early 2010s, he helped design a pilot program allowing foreign private-equity firms to raise yuan-denominated funds in the city—an early and closely watched experiment in internationalizing China’s currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ray and Cruz were one of salsa’s most successful internationalizing forces, spreading the promise of its sound to countries like Colombia, in particular.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
China’s years-long ambition of internationalizing the yuan has progressed slowly, with only 2 percent of all global transactions conducted in the Chinese currency.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2020
“My father was a pioneer in internationalizing the Chinese shipbuilding market, and it has been over 30 years that he has continuously ordered ships in China.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2019
Mr. Knox suggested the proposal of internationalizing the railways of Manchuria.
From My Three Years in America by Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
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