militarization

English

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.

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: सैन्यकरण m (sainyakraṇ)
• 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