MODERNIZE


Meaning of MODERNIZE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

modernize/reform a system

We need to reform the electoral system.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Any money raised will be used to modernize classrooms.

It was an old farmhouse that had been modernized by the previous owner.

Our aim was to modernize the health service, and we succeeded.

Salinas pledged to modernize Mexico when he was elected.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A serious delay in modernizing the complex could threaten that compromise.

And why is modernizing motherhood so hard?

Mr Wilson had also said a good deal about modernizing the machinery of government.

Rather, O Brother is filled with faithful if somewhat modernized renditions of the folky music of the Old South.

Their town house had been sold, lingeringly, with rearguard modernizing actions to keep up its price.

This was an important step towards a national health service, though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities.

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