[
UK
/mˌɒdənaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
-
making modern in appearance or behavior
the modernization of Nigeria will be a long process
How To Use modernisation In A Sentence
- Modernisation of the beach will include stopping through traffic to Blackgate Road.
- But it was the modernisation of the Armed Forces which was his central preoccupation. Times, Sunday Times
- The bottom line is that the state will continue to evolve from the traditional welfare role towards an agent of modernisation and structural reform.
- Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation.
- Among the backwoodsmen in his own party, this will have been a modernisation too far. Times, Sunday Times
- It has survived enclosure and modernisation and strips have been passed down through generations.
- His responsibilities include modernisation of the health service across the North.
- And anyone thinking of serious modernisation would be actively discouraged. Times, Sunday Times
- As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was prompted by the decline of the old colonial empires.
- Belonging to a more elite corps, they promoted the railway by actively participating in the modernisation of the steel industry, creating English-style forges and a renaissance in smelting furnaces.