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democratisation en · NOUN

Etymology

From democratise + -ation or democrat + -isation.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard, uncountable, usually) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of democratization.
   alt of democratization
   • Five years later, when the institute published its first dataset of global democracy, its experts realised that things were rapidly going in the wrong direction. “Now, all of us researching democratisation have become researchers on autocratisation,” Lindberg says. 2026 March 17, Martin Gelin, “‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026:
   • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”. 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023, page 71:

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