militarization

[mil-i-tuh-rahyz-ay-shuhn, -ruhz-ay-shuhn]

noun

1. the act or process of equipping with military personnel, weapons, or resources.

2. the act or process of making something serve a military function or of imbuing it with militarism.

Example Sentences

It’s manifest in the federal militarization of Democratic-run cities and the cutting off of funding to blue states, but not red ones, during the current government shutdown.

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As the debate unfolds, the National Guard clashes reflect a broader national conversation about federal power, state sovereignty, and the line between law enforcement and militarization.

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Yet officials continue to embrace militarization as the country’s primary security strategy.

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Across the globe, politics has entered a death-driven orbit — a necropolitical turn shaped by rising authoritarianism, militarization, widening inequality, carceral regimes, systemic racism and the spiritual force of white Christian nationalism.

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It’s part of a broader militarization of immigration enforcement in this stretch of border.

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