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McDonaldisation

McDonaldisation is the alternative spelling of McDonaldization.

Meaning of McDonaldization

Noun

McDonaldization (uncountable)

  1. The process by which institutions in society become standardized and focused on efficiency and predictability.
    • Almost all social institutions (for example, education, sports, politics, and religion) were adapting McDonald's principles to their operations. And McDonaldization was spreading around the world—fast-food croissanteries in Paris (of all places), Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing, McDonald’s in...1996, George Ritzer, “Preface to the First Edition”, in The McDonaldization of Society […] , revised edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page xviii

Questions about McDonaldisation

What is McDonaldisation the alternative spelling of?
McDonaldisation is the alternative spelling of McDonaldization.

Words near McDonaldisation in the dictionary

  1. McDonald's
  2. McDonald's-esque
  3. McDonald's-ization
  4. McDonald'ses
  5. McDonaldesque
  6. McDonaldisation
  7. McDonaldish
  8. McDonaldization
  9. McDonaldize
  10. McDonaldized
  11. McDonaldizes

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