suburbanize

English

Etymology

From suburban +‎ -ize.

Verb

suburbanize (third-person singular simple present suburbanizes, present participle suburbanizing, simple past and past participle suburbanized)

1. (transitive) To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
   • 2007 August 27, Isabel Kershner, “The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.

Related terms

• suburbanization

Translations

To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

• German: eingemeinden (de)