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Jamaicanization en · NOUN

Etymology

From Jamaican + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) the act or process of Jamaicanizing.
    • This is perhaps implied by his statement: Government's programme of Jamaicanization of business operations in the country is moving ahead, and soon every Canadian bank operating in the island will have gone Jamaican 1990, G. E. Mills, A Reader in Public Policy and Administration:
    • Since independence in 1962, the trend has been towards the Jamaicanization of education. This is evidenced by the Jamaicanization of the administration of education, both at the national and institutional level, of the teaching profession at all levels, of syllabi and curricula, and the Jamaicanization and Caribbeanization of examinations. 2018, Colin Brock, Donald Clarkson, Education in Central America and the Caribbean, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • Jamaicanization, though, did not mean nationalization. 1994, Pablo Tomas Spiller, Ingo Vogelsang, Regulation, Institutions, and Commitment, World Bank Publications, page 12: