transcription, транскрипция: [ mɒdə(r)naɪz ]
( modernizes, modernizing, modernized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'modernise'
To modernize something such as a system or a factory means to change it by replacing old equipment or methods with new ones.
...plans to modernize the refinery...
VERB : V n
• mod‧ern‧iz‧ing
In effect, modernizing societies are portrayed as battlegrounds.
ADJ
• mod‧erni‧za‧tion
...a five-year modernization programme.
N-UNCOUNT