filipinization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society."
- "Filipinization echoed the liberal policy adopted by the Democrat U.S. administration, headed by President Woodrow Wilson, from 1913 to 1921."
- "“Asia for the Asians” can be said to have taken a religious turn in the post-war period with the campaign for the Filipinization of the religious orders instigated in mid-1957 by rebel priests Fr Ambrosio Manaligod of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Jesuit Hilario Lim."
- "The most plausible answer is the onslaught of Filipinization that swept the country at this time, smoldering in the mid-1960s, flaring in the 1970s, and then set ablaze in the eighties to weaken the colonial apparatus in the larger society."
- "The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios."
- "Essentially, this mass movement of people and culture from the Philippines constitutes a form of reverse colonization, where American political, social, and economic institutions and spaces experience varying degrees of Filipinization."
Etymology
From Filipino + -ization.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Filipinizations (plural)
Filipinisation (alternative, UK)