Definition of fractionalize in English:
fractionalize
(British fractionalise)
verb ˈfrakʃ(ə)n(ə)lʌɪzˈfrakSHənlˌīz
[with object]usually as adjective fractionalizedDivide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
fractionalized consumer markets
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of these issues can be resolved through fractionalizing the ownership of the property.
- This mirrors the fact that it's as diverse and fractionalized a landscape as we've ever seen out there, and it's only going to get more so.
- Allotments commonly became so fractionalized by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.
- It says that in this era of multiplying entertainment choices, audiences are being fractionalised.
- In serious cases of kidney stones an ultrasound that fractionalizes and breaks down the stones may be advised.
- In this fractionalized viewing world, it's the smartest thing a television executive can do.
- A heavily fractionalized opposition with a precarious majority imposes fewer constraints on the executive due to the difficulty of forming a cohesive legislative opposition bloc to oppose any given policy.
- It would be foolhardy to fractionalise into small regional units where the required capacities are just non-existent.
- We have now moved beyond polarization, we're fractionalized.
- Rumors spread and it is not uncommon for a fractionalizing of a department or entire company to take place.
- Yet the existing parties were imposed by the military, and are divided and bitterly fractionalised.
- It had had discussions with the union which had resulted in the creation of more fractionalised teaching posts, a voluntary redundancy programme followed by some compulsory redundancies and retirements for ill-health.
- Failure of the moderate initiatives shot down any hopes of creating a single voice for pro-independence parties, and the political landscape remained fractionalized.
- The result will be a fractionalized society with nothing meaningful holding us together.
- Such behavior forces a ‘we versus they’ mind-set and fractionalizes the organization.
- They also confirm that highly fractionalized societies will have a worse record of the rule of law.
- One does not wish to create a class environment that is so competitive that it may ultimately fractionalize and distance students.
- Spin liquid is one of the fractionalized phases which are likely to be observed in experiment.
Derivatives
noun
Growing staff volatility, and fractionalisation, has added a significant administrative burden to school management teams, whose energies ought to be directed at improving educational standards.
Example sentencesExamples
- Furthermore, it is desired that a certain level of oxygen purity be produced by the gas fractionalization system.
- In the final section, I present three brief case studies to illustrate that ethnic fractionalization must be complemented by a subtler understanding of the political significance of identities and the character of ethnic relations.
- The last forty years have witnessed a trend of political fractionalisation in the developed world.
- The principal idea is that greater fractionalization, proxying for the degree of conflict in society, leads to political instability, which in turn leads to higher government consumption aimed at placating the opposition.