metropolizes

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Verb[edit]

metropolizes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of metropolize

Noun[edit]

metropolizes

  1. plural of metropolis
    • 1995, Ana Cristina Leonardos, Effective Strategies and Approaches for Reaching Street and Working Children Through Education, page 3:
      Finally, the strikingly large number of street and working children in the Third World metropolizes, as well as the disadvantageous environmental, societal and economical conditions faced by the poor urban population, call for immediate recapitulation and informed action in this area.
    • 2015, Nicholas K. Githuku, Mau Mau Crucible of War, page 2:
      For this reason, colonial appendages of old European states were, for most metropolizes, no longer economically viable or sustainable.
    • 2017, Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Second Rank Cities in Europe:
      Herewith we wanted to point at the need to consider the place-based particularities of different metropolizes in policy processes of European urban development.