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interˈnationalize, v.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
trans. To render international in character or use; spec. in mod. Politics, to bring (a country, territory, etc.) under the combined government or protection of two or more different nations.
1864Webster, Internationalize, to make international; to cause to affect or pertain to the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a war. 1883Contemp. Rev. June 769 An earnest appeal to the Government at Berlin to unite with England in internationalizing the Congo. 188419th Cent. Oct. 627 Comte, Mill, and Herbert Spencer have internationalised the word [Sociology]. 1885Spectator 30 May 693/2 The Suez Canal must be internationalised and confided to the Khedive. 1897Stead in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 431 An internationalising of the peoples..based not on competition but on co-operation.
Hence interˌnationaliˈzation, the action of internationalizing.
1871Contemp. Rev. Dec. 95 Internationalisation is even now a great, though as yet but insufficiently recognised actuality. 1882E. Dicey in 19th Cent. Aug. 173 The internationalisation, if I may use the word, of Egypt. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 31 Oct. 19/2 Questions affecting the internationalization of the Congo, the Niger, and other fields of commerce. |