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McDonaldsisation

McDonaldsisation 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 McDonaldsisation

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

Words near McDonaldsisation in the dictionary

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

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