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agrarianize en · VERB

Etymology

From agrarian + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To imbue with the principles of agrarianism.
2. (transitive) To distribute according to the principles of agrarianism.
3. To convert to a more agricultural model.
   • Their living conditions had begun to deteriorate, initially with the administrative attempts to agrarianize their land .The attmpts to transform the Ainu into farmers were, however, not successful. 2013, Katarina Sjoberg, The Return of Ainu, page 122:
   • Traditionally, Hitler's has been seen as a determinedly atavistic ideology, with his admiration of healthy peasant life and his dislike of urban culture reflecting a desire to 're-agrarianize' Germany, to turn back the clock and put the industrial revolution into reverse, recreating Germany as a pre-industrial idyll. 2014, Neil Gregor, How To Read Hitler:
   • Man "has been industrialized to the limit. Now agrarianize him. Somewhat." 2017, Anselm L. Strauss, Images of the American City:

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