globalize

verb glob·al·ize \ ˈglō-bə-ˌlīz \

|Updated on: 29 Jun 2018

Examples: globalize in a Sentence

Definition of globalize

globalized; globalizing

transitive verb

: to make global; especially : to make worldwide in scope or application

globalize a company's operations

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Examples of globalize in a Sentence

The economy has become globalized.
The company is planning to globalize.

Recent Examples of globalize from the Web

Some of it might be the happy result of ever-globalizing TV options.

— jason kehe, WIRED, "The Real Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now," 26 June 2018
But part of it was the sense that the world as a whole had globalized very rapidly.

— NBC News, "Meet the Press - June 3, 2018," 3 June 2018
Hours before the programs began on Tuesday, Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz said the company plans to globalize these efforts and make similar initiatives part of the on-boarding process for new employees.

— jennifer calfas, Time, "Was Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Effective? Here's What These Employees Thought," 30 May 2018
The hospital industry has been slower to globalize than many other U.S. sectors, daunted by the investment required and content with what was for many years a robust domestic market.

— melanie evans, WSJ, "U.S. Hospital Firms, Hungry to Expand, Look to China," 22 Apr. 2018
And so the march toward the today’s urban, globalized, social world begins in ancient Mesopotamia and environs more than 7,000 years ago, when the good life consisted of wine, barley, goats, and a few neighbors.

— stephan salisbury, Philly.com, "Penn Museum's Middle East Galleries reopen: Behold, the queen's beer straw," 19 Apr. 2018
Sullenberger is concerned that as airlines have become more consolidated and globalized, and inherently more cost-competitive, even good major airlines have reduced their training towards regulatory minimums and away from the higher standards.

— elizabeth weise, USA TODAY, "Airlines, including Southwest, are so safe it's hard to rank them by safety," 19 Apr. 2018
There’s some dispute over whether in-game action would help the league globalize the game.

— albert breer, SI.com, "Legal Sports Gambling is Coming, and the NFL Is Getting Ready to Capitalize (Of Course It Is)," 29 Mar. 2018
The legal frameworks of virtual citizenship invert and globalize the logic of the special economic zone—a geographical space of exception, where the usual rules of state and finance don’t apply.

— james bridle, The Atlantic, "The Rise of Virtual Citizenship," 21 Feb. 2018

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