Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make European.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make or cause to become European; assimilate to Europeans in any respect, or bring into a condition characteristic of Europe: as, a Europeanized Hindu.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to make something, or someone, more
European
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations
- verb make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
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Examples
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At the same time, though, the funds will also "Europeanize" the next gas spat, potentially undermining EU-Ukrainian relations.
Is Ukraine Fit for the EU? Tomas Valasek 2009
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President Obama and Congress are looking to "Europeanize" the United States through a legislative stampede of government control: the nationalizing of our health care system, cap and trade energy taxes, and aggressive unionization.
The American Spectator Dick Armey 2010
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President Obama and Congress are looking to "Europeanize" the United States through a legislative stampede of government control: the nationalizing of our health care system, cap and trade energy taxes, and aggressive unionization.
The American Spectator Dick Armey 2010
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If, however, he wants to "Europeanize" the United States, then the gloves come off.
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This will hamper employers, discourage and reject legal employees and otherwise "Europeanize"
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President Obama wants to Europeanize the U.S. All right, he wouldn't put it in those terms, partly because the electorate wouldn't wear it and partly because he sees himself as less Eurocentric than any of his 43 predecessors.
A Letter to America Daniel Hannan 2011
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The second is the increasing disappointment of independent voters, who are rightly unhappy with higher spending, higher taxes, ObamaCare, a lack of progress on trade, increased restrictions on the energy supply, and the near-commandeering of the auto and banking industries, all of which amount to an effort to Europeanize America, just as European welfare states are facing their own crisis
Change for the Worse Pete du Pont 2011
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A second political obstacle is the fear that helping Greece will lead to similar demands from Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and even Italy, to Europeanize their national debts.
Robert Kuttner: Can Europe Be Spared Cascading Collapse? Robert Kuttner 2011
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And then to Europeanize the world's greatest healthcare system on top of it!
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Mitch McConnel warns that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, permitting workers to form unions through a majority sign-up process rather than an election rigged by employers, would “Europeanize America”
Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries 2009
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