Canadianization
Canadianization noun: the process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.
Noun
Canadianization (countable and uncountable, plural Canadianizations)
- The process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.
- The Canadianization of their children may have had certain negative effects for immigrant family relations, but it worked well in the interests of assimilation and nation building.2006, Cynthia Comacchio, The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950, Wilfred Laurier University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 57
- While a few works in this second category have analyzed the strategies of churches in promoting the Canadianization of first-generation immigrants, like most institutional studies they provide the view from the head office.2006, Roberto Perin, “The Churches and Immigrant Integration in Toronto, 1947-65”, in Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert, editors, Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century...
Forms of Canadianization
| plural | Canadianizations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Canadianisation |
Origin of Canadianization
From Canadian + -ization.
Questions about Canadianization
- What does Canadianization mean?
- Canadianization means the process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.
- What part of speech is Canadianization?
- Canadianization is a noun.
- What is the plural of Canadianization?
- The plural of Canadianization is Canadianizations.
Words near Canadianization in the dictionary
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