automobilizedadj.
/ɔːtəʊˈməʊbᵻlʌɪzd/, /ɔːtəʊˈməʊbl̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈmoʊbəlaɪzd/, /ˌɔdəˈmoʊbəlaɪzd/, /ˌɑdoʊˈmoʊbəlaɪzd/, /ˌɑdəˈmoʊbəlaɪzd/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
Of a place, etc.: characterized by the use of or dependence upon automobiles.
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1898 Cosmopolitan Sept. 480/1 It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Paris is becoming ‘automobilized’.
1937 Law & Contemp. Probl. 4 330 During the period when this country was becoming automobilized.
1966 Calif. Law Rev. 54 902 Thus making effective their [sc. blind people's] right to use the streets in urbanized and automobilized America.
1999 New Yorker 2 Feb. 73/2 They want to bring classicism out into the open, coaxing from it some response to the wretchedly automobilized cityscape that the last half century has created.
2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 25 Dec. 67/1 The bike activists trying to undo not just the environmental depredations of automobilized existence but the concurrent social atomization.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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