Australianize
/ɒˈstreɪlɪənʌɪz/(also Australianise)
verb [with object]
Make Australian in character: the two companies got together to Australianize the product (as adjective Australianized) the agency boss is an Australianized Brit living a two-hour commute from Sydney...
- The film has been praised as postmodern pastiche and an Australian musical which can be seen to Australianize the form.
- We would take that program and we would Australianize it more and more.
- The club should lead the nation and Australianize its constitution.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Australian + -ize.
- pounds worth
- pound the beat
- pound-weight
- Poupart's ligament
- poupeton
- poupou
- pou pou
- poupée
- pour
- pourable
- pourboire
- pour cold water on
- pour encourager les autres
- pourer
- pourie
- pouring cream
- pouring rights
- pour it on
- pouriture
- pour le sport
- pour oil on troubled waters
- pour-on
- pourparler
- pourparty
- pour passer le temps