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US
/ˈmɪɫətɝˌaɪz/
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VERB
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lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
militarize Germany again after the war -
adopt for military use
militarize the Civil Service
How To Use militarize In A Sentence
- He said the campaign fully supported the legislation and would be lobbying for the United Nations and the African Union to encourage governments in programmes to demilitarise society. ANC Daily News Briefing
- German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
- North Korea is said to be the world's most heavily militarized country, with over 1 million men in the armed forces.
- No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
- Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors 'land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad — which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies — and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. Explaining Darfur
- Why was Hitler allowed to remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria, and invade Czechoslovakia before the Allies confronted him over his incursion into Poland in September 1939?
- This bill ties the hands of law enforcement, militarizes counterterrorism on our own soil, and makes us less safe. Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution
- Should Japan be remilitarized?
- JROTC also runs a Middle School Cadet Corp for children as young as 11, that militarizes them even before they graduate elementary school. Pentagon Recruits Kids Under 17, Violating UN Protocol
- While pretending to create a kind of police force, he militarized his formations and transformed them into a professional military body.