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urbanizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From urbanize + -er.

Meanings

1. One who develops a place into a city.
2. A place that takes on the characteristics of cities.
   • However, rapid urbanization would be a major break from India's past as the country has been, so far, a reluctant urbanizer. It took half a century for the share of urban population to rise from 17% in 1951 to 28.5% in 2001. 2008, Sanjeev Sanyal, The Indian renaissance: India's rise after a thousand years of decline, page 193:

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