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McDonalds-ization

McDonalds-ization is the alternative form 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 McDonalds-ization

What is McDonalds-ization the alternative form of?
McDonalds-ization is the alternative form of McDonaldization.

Words near McDonalds-ization in the dictionary

  1. McDonaldize
  2. McDonaldized
  3. McDonaldizes
  4. McDonaldizing
  5. McDonalds
  6. McDonalds-ization
  7. McDonaldsesque
  8. McDonaldsisation
  9. McDonaldsization
  10. McDonaldson
  11. McDonel

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