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to suburbanize

to suburbanize

1 7.0
To make a place more like areas outside a city by building houses and shops
  • verb
  • /səˈbɜːrbənaɪz/
translation icon : suburbanizar
  • Yet the United States has been industrialized and suburbanized for a much shorter time than most people realize, with its high-energy society based on fossil fuels invented only in the last 120 years.

Examples

  • The first regions to suburbanize, the Mid-Atlantic and California, had a large system of paved roads for cars by the 1920s and multiple free and tolled expressways by the 1930s.

    Blog text (33)

  • The Sopranos suburbanizes the mafia narrative genre.

    Academic text (2014)

  • When everyone suburbanizes, it creates a burden on commodity prices worldwide.

    Blog text (5)

  • Because the goal was to appeal to Manhattanites desiring to suburbanize without leaving the city, high-quality infrastructure was essential for attracting both investors and buyers.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The economy of the region replicates that of the country in a shift from manufacturing toward services, and in terms of settlement patterns, the middle classes of the area have suburbanized like those of other U.S. cities in ways that only vary locally.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Dub lived a mile or so out from Rocklund, and the area hadn't yet been completely subdivided and suburbanized.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Pacific Islanders are thus suburbanized in Auckland, not because they are creating ethnoburbs, but because the local housing market has strongly directed them into such areas.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I'm utilizing the term 'suburbanized' metaphorically to describe imposed group-think, which is the bedding rock of your average and typically over-regulated HOA or NA.

    Blog text (3)

  • The government plans to suburbanize the rural area by building new homes and schools.

  • As more families move out of the city, developers suburbanize areas to meet their housing needs.

Antonyms

to urbanize
  • US
4 5.3

To make a place more like a city by building more houses, roads, shops, and services

Surface Forms

suburbanize infinitive
suburbanized past
suburbanized past participle
suburbanizing present participle
suburbanizes third person singular

Morphology

suburbanize = suburban (transparent) = suburb + ize

The verb is transparently formed from the adjective 'suburban' with the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize', so its meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Suburbanize comes from sub- meaning 'near' or 'under' and urban meaning 'city', as in the word suburb. So to suburbanize a place is to make it more like the area just outside a city by building houses, shops, and roads.