globalisation
UKgloh-buh-ly-ZAY-shuhn/ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/USgloh-buh-li-ZAY-shuhn/ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Pluralglobalisations
US spellingglobalization · also used in the UK
- 1The process by which the countries and peoples of the world become ever more closely linked, especially as trade, business and money come to operate on a worldwide scale.
Globalisation means that a factory closure in one country can be felt on high streets thousands of miles away.
The pandemic showed how far globalisation had gone, as the virus travelled along the routes of trade and tourism.
UsageUsually with no article; use the for a particular kind or case: the globalisation of trade, the globalisation we see today.
Similarinternationalisation
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Origin
The word joins global and the suffix -isation, or globalise and -ation. Theodore Levitt, a German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School, made it widely known.