globalize

verb

glob·​al·​ize ˈglō-bə-ˌlīz 

globalized; globalizing

transitive verb

: to make or become global: such as

a

: to make or become worldwide in scope or application

globalize a company's operations

The industry has globalized.

b

: to make or become globally integrated or interconnected

globalize rural communities

… human civilization has progressively globalized.

—David Biello

globalized adjective

an increasingly globalized world/economy/society

Examples of globalize in a Sentence

The economy has become globalized.

The company is planning to globalize.

Recent Examples on the Web

Chain bookselling, which enabled the unification of the reading market, was one of the first heralds of a globalizing age. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

But by the 2010s, private equity was globalizing and supersizing. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026

International students therefore represent not only a way to globalize Japanese campuses and attract talent, but an increasingly important source of enrollment as the country's domestic college-age population contracts. — Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

And all this is happening while the economy has globalized — something that many political economists thought would encourage democracy among previously undemocratic nations. — José Kaire, The Conversation, 17 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for globalize

• advertise
• aggrandize
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• amortize
• amplifies
• analyse
• analyze
• anywise
• authorize
• butterflies