metropolise

English

Verb

metropolise (third-person singular simple present metropolises, present participle metropolising, simple past and past participle metropolised)

1. Alternative form of metropolize
   • 1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann:

     Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.

   • 2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194:

     In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.

   • 2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development:

     Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.

Related terms

• metropolisation

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• metropoleis