militarization

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militarization

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Alternative forms

• militarisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From militarize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪ.lɪ.tə.ɹaɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

militarization (countable and uncountable, plural militarizations)

1. The process whereby some area, procedure, aspect of culture, etc., becomes controlled by the military or administered in a military fashion.

   Coordinate terms: demilitarization, remilitarization

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 167:

     The masculine militarization of culture has led to a feminine eroticization.

   • 2025 May 13, Patrik Jonsson, “Beat cops to game wardens, Florida expands ‘army’ of immigration enforcers”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     The 1990s saw a massive militarization of US police.

Derived terms

• demilitarization
• remilitarization

Translations

Translations

Albanian: militarizim (sq) m Arabic: عَسْكَرَة f (ʕaskara) Armenian: ռազմականացում (hy) (ṙazmakanacʻum) Asturian: militarización f Azerbaijani: militarizasiya Belarusian: мілітарыза́цыя f (militaryzácyja) Bulgarian: милитариза́ция f (militarizácija) Catalan: militarització f Chinese: Mandarin: 軍事化 / 军事化 (zh) (jūnshìhuà) Czech: militarizace f Danish: militarisering c Dutch: militarisering (nl) f Estonian: militariseerimine Finnish: militarisointi French: militarisation (fr) f Georgian: მილიტარიზაცია (miliṭarizacia) German: Militarisierung (de) f Greek: στρατιωτικοποίηση (el) f (stratiotikopoíisi) Hindi: सैन्यीकरण m (sainyīkraṇ) Hungarian: militarizálás (hu) Italian: militarizzazione (it) f Japanese: 軍事化 (ぐんじか, gunjika) Korean: 군사화(軍事化) (gunsahwa) Latvian: militarizācija f Lithuanian: militarizacija f Macedonian: милитаризација f (militarizacija) Norwegian: Bokmål: militarisering m Persian: نظامی‌سازی (nezâmi-sâzi) Polish: militaryzacja (pl) f Portuguese: militarização f Romanian: militarizare (ro) f Russian: милитариза́ция (ru) f (militarizácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: милитариза́ција f Roman: militarizácija (sh) f Slovak: militarizácia f Slovene: militarizacija f Spanish: militarización (es) f Swedish: militarisering (sv) c Turkish: askerileştirme, militarizasyon Turkmen: militarizmleşdirme Ukrainian: мілітариза́ція (uk) f (militaryzácija) Uzbek: militarizatsiya (uz), militarizatsiyalashtirish (uz) Vietnamese: sự quân sự hoá