metropolize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To develop into a city or urban area.
Example Sentences
- "Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information."
- "Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity."
- "Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections."
- "Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town."
- "Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services."
- "I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest."
Etymology
From metropolis + -ize.