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
Example Sentences
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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
We do it to grow the game and internationalize the game.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Hammer’s appointment “is a conscious step taken by the board in order to further internationalize the Salzburg Festival,” Wilfried Haslauer Jr., the region’s governor, said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
You must widen and internationalize, without pause or limit, all which permits of it.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
“There’s a kind of sense of local accountability, and as news becomes nationalized and even internationalized, there’s a loss there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
“This dispute, unlike almost any other in the world, has been internationalized from the very beginning,” Sidoti said, “and there is therefore a continuing international responsibility for the resolution of the dispute.”
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 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
If the United States will help us, my wish is that these German Colonies that we have taken, especially in Africa, should be "internationalized."
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick
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
“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
That’s where Andy Jackson, nowadays the coach at Arkansas and previously the coach at Florida and Mississippi State, tends to come up in conversations as a pioneer in the internationalizing.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2017
It is the direct result of that widening of intercourse, that internationalizing of the world, to which reference has already been made.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
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