globalization

noun

glob·al·i·za·tion ˌglō-bə-lə-ˈzā-shən

: the act or process of globalizing : the state of being globalized

especially : the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets

Examples of globalization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That’s what happened to many manufacturing workers in the 1980s and 1990s, displaced by robotics and a wave of globalization. —

Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024 This accelerated with globalization after the end of the Cold War and the onset of atomization with the arrival of the smartphone (that prodigious generator of status anxiety), leading to more unequal, more polarized, more fretful societies. —

Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for globalization

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