balkanisation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Balkanization.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences.""
Etymology
From Balkan + -isation.
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable