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Jamaicanization

Jamaicanization noun: the act or process of Jamaicanizing.

Noun

Jamaicanization (uncountable)

  1. the act or process of Jamaicanizing.
    • This is perhaps implied by his statement: Government's programme of Jamaicanization of business operations in the country is moving ahead, and soon every Canadian bank operating in the island will have gone Jamaican1990, G. E. Mills, A Reader in Public Policy and Administration
    • Jamaicanization, though, did not mean nationalization.1994, Pablo Tomas Spiller, Ingo Vogelsang, Regulation, Institutions, and Commitment, World Bank Publications, page 12

Origin of Jamaicanization

From Jamaican + -ization.

Questions about Jamaicanization

What does Jamaicanization mean?
Jamaicanization means the act or process of Jamaicanizing.
What part of speech is Jamaicanization?
Jamaicanization is a noun.

Words near Jamaicanization in the dictionary

  1. Jamaican Patois
  2. Jamaican patties
  3. Jamaican patty
  4. Jamaican time
  5. Jamaican vomiting sickness
  6. Jamaicanization
  7. Jamaicanize
  8. Jamaicanized
  9. Jamaicanizes
  10. Jamaicanizing
  11. Jamaicanness

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