GLOBALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does globalise mean? 

• GLOBALISE (verb)
  The verb GLOBALISE has 1 sense:

1. make world-wide in scope or application

  Familiarity information: GLOBALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they globalise    ... he / she / it globalises   
Past simple: globalised   
Past participle: globalised   
-ing form: globalising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make world-wide in scope or application

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

globalise; globalize

Context example:

Markets are being increasingly globalized

Hypernyms (to "globalise" is one way to...):

broaden; extend; widen (extend in scope or range or area)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

globalisation (growth to a global or worldwide scale)

 Context examples 

Increasingly globalised trade saw elephant ivory flood European markets in the 13th century, and fashions changed.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)