militarization

• militarisation (non-Oxford British English)

From militarize + -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪ.lɪ.tə.ɹaɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/

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militarization (countable and uncountable, plural militarizations)

1. The process whereby some area, procedure, aspect of culture, etc., becomes controlled by the military or administered in a military fashion.

   Coordinate terms: demilitarization, remilitarization

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 167:

     The masculine militarization of culture has led to a feminine eroticization.

   • 2025 May 13, Patrik Jonsson, “Beat cops to game wardens, Florida expands ‘army’ of immigration enforcers”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     The 1990s saw a massive militarization of US police.