modernize
It is obvious that the railway system needs modernization.
His ambition is to bring economic modernization and peace to the country.
Employees are finding it hard to adapt to the rapid modernization of the workplace.

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modernization | Business English

modernization
noun[ U ]
(UK alsomodernisation)uk /ˌmɒdənaɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌmɒdərnəˈzeɪʃən/
the process of starting to use the most recent methods, ideas, equipment, etc. so that something becomes or seems more modern:
The modernization of the 100-year-old sewage and water systems will cost millions of pounds.
The property is basically sound, but in need of modernization.

Examples of modernization

modernization
Today their number is decreasing as a result of urban development and the modernization of agriculture.
Rejuvenation of the academic staff will doubtless also entail scientific modernization and make possible new forms of research and education.
Here modernization took place in a relatively smooth manner and there was no need to fear external threats, but domestic tensions were inevitable.
There is a certain complicity between archaeology and modernization: after the archaeologists have done their work, the landscape can be legitimately destroyed.
Most importantly, cybernetics was trumpeted as a universal science of government that would help to guide the social organization necessary for modernization.
The list of accomplishments at the end is an excellent example of the fundamentalist attribute of selective modernization and controlled acculturation.
Today, such problems are aggravated by the pressures of modernization.
The imposed modernization of the irrigation infrastructure has reduced the effectiveness of collective action and contributions to the maintenance of the irrigation system.
Who can say where modernization leaves off and globalization begins?
A firmly entrenched evolutionary perspective guided the modernization plans of the newly empowered government services.
But social modernization does transform the content of ideological polarization and the degree of this division.
Indeed, one of the major underdiscussed consequences of social modernization may be this transformation of the ideological debate and all that this implies.
Built into most anti-colonial ideology were radical commitments to modernization and a pronounced antipathy to anything other than democracy and meritocracy.
These occupations increased to some extent because of rapid industrialization and modernization at this time.
The process of 'modernization' had generally not been viewed very positively by the farming class.
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