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Meaning modernize meaning

What does modernize mean?

modernize

— verb (= overhaul) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to You should overhaul your car engine overhaul the health care system — verb (= modernise, develop) become technologically advanced Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly

Synonyms modernize synonyms

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modernize English » English

modernise update reform overhaul modernization improve develop up-date style streamline regenerate rebuild modernisation make new innovate change bring up-to-date bring up to date

Topics modernize topics

What do people use modernize to talk about?
States Time Aspectual time Age

New
States Time Aspectual time Age

Modern

Conjugation modernize conjugation

How do you conjugate modernize?

modernize · verb

Examples modernize examples

How do I use modernize in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

We'll have to modernize it.
My man promises to modernize the city, put in more streetlights, drain the swamps.
Our boss and Yasuoka realized we had to modernize.
It's supposed to be the place where we negotiate with foreign powers and debate the use of Western ideas to modernize our society.
Your task is to modernize military intelligence.
We modernize it, of course, and retool.
You need to modernize, get some sort of cash flow going.
Help people modernize and expand.
He-he was feeling the need to modernize.
With the extra money, the factory had decided to modernize eliminating Mr. Bucket's job.
But I see that rapidly modernize.
MODERNIZE THE SPORT SO GUYS LIKE BOB GIBSON WON'T KNOW WHAT HIT THEM WHEN NEW YORK MONEY COMES TO TOWN.
Modernize, you pathetic squares!
Get a few dollars ahead, I'd like to modernize it a little.
While we're at it, we might as well rewire it and modernize the plumbing.
They modernize and re-equip the plant and turn out air bags.
Think he'll try to modernize us?
But I can see that the world has changed, and one must. modernize.
I shall modernize Iran and make it a republic!
To evolve! Modernize, you pathetic squares!
But we must also look ahead and modernize.
It's trying to modernize Spain. Come on, Pedro.
And still if you want to build anything down here, change anything, modernize anything, you get looked upon as the problem.
I'll be gutting the basement later this year and a few floors to modernize things.
Well, I want to modernize it.
To modernize the city in view of all-out expansion, we've created an interdisciplinary multi-media complex.
Steps to modernize the university.
We need to modernize.
Factory 420 will use the money to modernize its technology.
If we don't modernize, we'll become irrelevant.
As we continue to modernize our facilities, we plan eventually to affiliate with a major university.
Well, I will admit the Social Security Administration has been slow to modernize.
Papa, we need to modernize. We should turn some of these smurfberries into preserves to avoid a future shortage.

News and current affairs

On one hand, the world sees a young, educated leader pledging to modernize Russia, particularly in terms of bringing its law enforcement and judicial practices into line with international norms.
So there is real hope that Iran can change, modernize, and open up as the rest of Asia has.
Perhaps most importantly, competition is a powerful means to restore democracy and modernize political institutions by compelling policymakers to ensure transparency and accountability.
Instead, they have insisted that nuclear weapons are essential for their security and continued to modernize their nuclear arsenals.
Abe's visit to Washington in late April is an opportunity to continue to modernize a relationship conceived in an earlier geopolitical era.
During the Meiji era, in the second half of the nineteenth century, it became the first Asian country to modernize.
It has failed to modernize and diversify its economy.
Tibetans, in other words, should be allowed to modernize themselves.
The most recent example is Turkey, where a courageous prime minister has confirmed the secular (rather than Islamist) rule of law, sought to modernize the economy, and has kept the military out of the Cabinet.
Neglect of agriculture should, perhaps, have been expected in the government's rush to modernize; what was unexpected was the government's increasing reliance on dubious fiscal strategies.
Ukraine's industries need to modernize, not become more addicted to cheap gas, and gas transit will become almost as monopolistic as gas supply - a dismal prospect, given past cut-offs of gas supplies between Russia and Europe.
Then there are disruptive influences that percolate up from below: changing customer preferences and, even more important, outside visionaries seeking to transform and modernize the industry.
They expect to be net financial beneficiaries, which would help them modernize.
The debate around opening the retail sector to foreign investment is currently being framed, on the one hand, by the need to modernize supply chains and, on the other hand, by the desire to protect small shopkeepers' livelihoods.
The Chinese economy will continue to grow; the Chinese military will continue to modernize; and the Chinese people will remain united in their Great Power aspirations.
Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.
That requires, first and foremost, efforts to strengthen and modernize institutions, guided by Western examples.
What made Mr. Lavin an unusual right-of-center candidate was that he proposed many initiatives that would modernize Chile's political and social institutions.
Indeed, no state run by a Communist Party has yet managed to reform itself sufficiently to modernize and develop successfully.
But a broader economic initiative is also needed to mobilize a critical mass of European and international financial resources to attract investment to the region and modernize its infrastructures and services.
When Japan was threatened by Western imperialism, he says, the country had to open up (in 1868) and modernize.

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