Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To render suburban; impart a suburban character to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render suburban in character.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
suburban ; to convert or adapt to asuburb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take on suburban character
- verb make suburban in character
Etymologies
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Examples
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"suburbanize" the neighborhood and ruin its eclectic vibrancy.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Blacks like other groups continue to suburbanize, said Seth Forman, chief planner with the Long Island Regional Planning Council.
Leaving City for Long Island Joseph De Avila 2011
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People and jobs have continued to sprawl and suburbanize since the turn of the century, just as they were doing before. joe from Lowell says:
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What sanctioned this building boom was the impulse to suburbanize and travel.
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Worldwide, almost every country continued to suburbanize, from Orange County, California, to Grand-Couronne around Paris.
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Building a new station on the southern end of town will make it more feasible to suburbanize Albemarle where, currently, Charlottesville dissolves to countryside within just a few miles on 29.
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Building a new station on the southern end of town will make it more feasible to suburbanize Albemarle where, currently, Charlottesville dissolves to countryside within just a few miles on 29.
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Production and consumption rose, as the nation's population not only increased but continued to urbanize, and then suburbanize, in growing numbers.
2. Canada, 1946-2000 2001
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JACKSON: Well, the DLC appoints by invitation -- invites its constituency, and labor is not in the DNC -- DLC, and this -- 40 percent of this convention -- only a smathering of blacks in the DLC or Hispanics in the DLC, and so it's in some sense a privatized version of Democrats that they sought to suburbanize the party.
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In short, single-use office buildings suburbanize the urban core itself while facilitating continued use of the suburban development model (i.e., sprawl) throughout our region.
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