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Modernize   /mˈɑdərnˌaɪz/   Listen
Modernize

verb
(past & past part. modernized; pres. part. modernizing)
1.
Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to.  Synonyms: modernise, overhaul.  "Overhaul the health care system"
2.
Become technologically advanced.  Synonyms: develop, modernise.  "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"






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"Modernize" Quotes from Famous Books



... great care. Is not there one about W'm. Tell, and would not that in the present state of discussions be likely to tell? The Epigrams I meant are to be found at the end of Harrington's Translation of Orlando Furioso: if you could get the book, they would some of them answer your purpose to modernize. If you can't, I fancy I can. Baxter's Holy Commonwealth I have luckily met with, and when I have sent it, you shall if you please consider yourself indebted to me 3s. 6d. the cost of it: especially as I purchased it after your solemn injunctions. The plain case with ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... is rather difficult to translate, or at least to modernize, as bespoke," said Lady Geraldine, after she had perused the sonnet;[82] "but I think, Mr. Devereux, you brought this difficulty upon yourself. How came you to show these lines to such an amateur, such a fetcher ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth

... on which he drew squares and oblongs appeared to gain fresh inspiration. He looked up with new light in his eyes. "I got it—got the whole thing. Modernize it. This chap is a rich young New Yorker, cruising on his yacht, and he's wrecked on this island and gets a lot of stuff ashore and his valet is saved, too—say there's some good comedy, see what I mean?—valet is one of these stiff English lads, never been wrecked ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... smallest country in Central America, El Salvador has the third largest economy, but growth has been minimal in recent years. Hoping to stimulate the sluggish economy, the government is striving to open new export markets, encourage foreign investment, and modernize the tax and healthcare systems. Implementation in 2006 of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement, which El Salvador was the first to ratify, has strenthened an already positive export trend. The trade deficit has been offset by annual remittances from Salvadorans ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... to modernize Africa should be through schools rather than churches. Within ten years, twenty million black children ought to be in school. Within a generation young Africa should know the essential outlines of modern culture and groups of bright African ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois


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