Usually means: Transform area to urban characteristics.
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  1. metropolitanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. metropolitanize: Collins English Dictionary
  3. metropolitanize: Wordnik
  4. metropolitanize: Wiktionary
  5. metropolitanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. metropolitanize: Infoplease Dictionary
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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.

Similar:
metropolitanise, metropolize, metropolise, cosmopolitanize, urbanize, suburbanize, cosmopolitanise, townify, municipalise, suburbanise, more...

Opposite:
ruralize, suburbanize, provincialize

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Similar:
metropolitanise, metropolize, metropolise, cosmopolitanize, urbanize, suburbanize, cosmopolitanise, townify, municipalise, suburbanise, more...

Opposite:
ruralize, suburbanize, provincialize



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