1 the process of starting to use the most recent methods, ideas, equipment, etc. so that something becomes or seems more modern:
His ambition is to bring economic modernization and peace to the country.
Employees are finding it hard to adapt to the rapid modernization of the workplace.
Today their number is decreasing as a result of urban development and the modernization of agriculture.
Rejuvenation of the academic staff will doubtless also entail scientific modernization and make possible new forms of research and education.
Here modernization took place in a relatively smooth manner and there was no need to fear external threats, but domestic tensions were inevitable.
There is a certain complicity between archaeology and modernization: after the archaeologists have done their work, the landscape can be legitimately destroyed.
Most importantly, cybernetics was trumpeted as a universal science of government that would help to guide the social organization necessary for modernization.
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