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[ verb ] make repairs or adjustments to
Examples "You should overhaul your car engine" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)It recommended that Fulton legislators act `` to have these laws studied and revised to the end of modernizing and improving them '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make a country technologically advanced
Examples "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace" "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly" Used in print (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)American policy should press constantly the view that until these governments demand efficiency and effectiveness of their bureaucracies there is not the slightest hope that they will either modernize of democratize their societies . Related terms |
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