0 past simple and past participle of democratize
1 to make countries or organizations use democratic ways of making decisions:
It's about time we democratized the organization of this company.
Corruption is typically lower in dictatorships than in countries that have partially democratized.
Because they have democratized backwards, most third-wave countries are currently incomplete democracies.
The establishment of the panchayats democratized management of village affairs as every member of the village could participate.
Stated differently, corruption is likely to be slightly lower in dictatorships than in countries that have partially democratized.
How much did they feel the political system should be democratized while they lived under authoritarian rule (1980-88)?
Staging ground for the second industrial revolution and focus of a mass migration, their metropolis had democratized consumption and secured social peace within diversity.
The elite practice of keeping female performers was even democratized in the nineteenth century.
The city stands, democratized and mobile, as the source of the "desire" that this poem both articulates and sublimates.
