"metropolize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "metropolis + -ize",
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      "form": "metropolizes",
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          "ref": "1987, Telecommunications Abstracts, page 14",
          "text": "Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2003, Richard G. Harris, North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada",
          "text": "Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.",
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          "ref": "2014, Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761, page 16",
          "text": "Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections.",
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        "To urbanize; to center or focus on the city."
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          "urbanize",
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          "ref": "1959, Ima Honaker Herron, The small town in American literature, page 364",
          "text": "Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a \"metropolized\" town.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Today's Health - Volume 45, Issues 1-6, page 26",
          "text": "Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, South Carolina Wildlife - Volume 44, page 7",
          "text": "I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.",
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        {
          "ref": "1866, American Journal of Numismatics - Volumes 1-3, page 4",
          "text": "Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, page 176",
          "text": "Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”",
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        "To visit the city."
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        "(obsolete) To visit the city."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard G. Harris, North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada",
          "text": "Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Today's Health - Volume 45, Issues 1-6, page 26",
          "text": "Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, South Carolina Wildlife - Volume 44, page 7",
          "text": "I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.",
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        }
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          "text": "Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, page 176",
          "text": "Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”",
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        }
      ],
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        "To visit the city."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) To visit the city."
      ],
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  "word": "metropolize"
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