Did you mayhaps mean global?
Etymologies
- Blend of global and local. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(I am not, however, a huge fan of the jargon-y term for that idea -- "glocal" -- even though I used to toss it around promiscuously in the late 1990s.)”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Voting Local Is the New Global
“I am not, however, a huge fan of the jargon-y term for that idea--"glocal"--even though I used to toss it around promiscuously in the late 1990s.”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Voting Local Is the New Global
“The most popular solutions currently are 'glocal' - global in strategy and local in delivery.”
“We must strike a balance - a concept we call "glocal" - in order to capitalize on the growth potential of key markets around the world.”
“Here, amid the glittering ruins of globalized gentrification's gilded age, a kind of glocal tenants 'movement is taking shape, at once locally rooted and globally connective.”
The Huffington Post: Here Comes the Neighborhood: The Housing Movement Goes Global in East Harlem
“Her organization combines global thinking with local action resulting in "glocal" innovation -- developing the leadership potential of girls and young women in poor communities around the world.”
“My travels underscore the importance of looking for the "third way" -- the "glocal" solution.”
“The Internet has granted every society the opportunity to converge as a 'glocal' society and communicate with people from all over the planet.”
“The fear is that such a "glocal" ideology could serve as a bridge between traditional Palestinian nationalism and al-Qaida's global Salafi-Jihadi ideology.”
“Think global, act local" slogan, first used by the environmental movement in the 1970s, before spreading to global companies trying to spread local roots (thus the term "glocal") in the roaring 1980s and '90s.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glocal’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
bananosecond, fruitylicious, appled, kiwiclock, boomorange, damsonic, pearforate, graspberry, squince, datelier, caroberate, plumpire and 143 more...
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Metaplasm
Seen only as errors by many, metaplastic words are the mutating cells of the living language, coaxing meaning from the reader's mind and making their evolutionary attempt at viability. Discover the...
squirmish, spleasure, glocal, felicitator, massacure, supurban, hostiltality, acrofiti, weary, predictament, wemon, presdifigurators and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for glocal.
jodi I ran into a Technical Report titled Glocal Multimedia Retrieval
http://dit.unitn.it/publications/11682
Hypothesized glocal was about joining the global and the local. "Glocal" = local diversity + global knowledge?
Abstract uses phrases like:
"local diversity into an evolving global knowledge"
"gap between local content and global concept"
"Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global."
context-sensitive
This example here at wordnik helps most: 'Hu used the word "glocal" to describe business strategies combining "global vision with local strategy."' Dec 15, 2009
bilby I'm not a fan of luminous sugar-substitutes. Oct 2, 2009
seanahan This word is awful. Oct 2, 2009
tcanny Glocal is another metaplastic word submitted by prolific contributor Clint McInnes.
Clint says, “I saw this one in a trade journal advertisement. It is a combination of “global�? and “local�?, and was used to describe the abilities of a parts distributor. They claim to source and serve both globally and locally, borrowing the best aspects of each approach.�?
Sep 30, 2009
john “He pioneered ‘glocal’ news — outsourcing Pasadena coverage to India at Pasadena Now, his daily online ‘newspaperless,’ as he likes to call it. Indians are writing about everything from the Pasadena Christmas tree-lighting ceremony to kitchen remodeling to city debates about eliminating plastic shopping bags.�?
The New York Times, A Penny for My Thoughts?, by Maureen Dowd, November 29, 2008
Nov 30, 2008