globalisation

English

Alternative forms

globalization (US, Oxford British English)

Etymology

From global +‎ -isation or globalise +‎ -ation. Popularized by German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School Theodore Levitt.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
(Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌɡləʉ.bə.lɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Hyphenation: glo‧ba‧li‧sa‧tion

Noun

globalisation (countable and uncountable, plural globalisations) (non-Oxford British English)

The process of becoming a more interconnected world.
The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory.
- 2022 April 8, David Brooks, “Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 September 2025:
  Sure, globalization as flows of trade will continue. But globalization as the driving logic of world affairs — that seems to be over.

Derived terms

Translations

process of becoming a more interconnected world

Afrikaans: globalisering
Albanian: globalizim m
Arabic: عَوْلَمَة f (ʕawlama)
Armenian: գլոբալիզացիա (hy) (globalizacʻia), համաշխարհայնացում (hy) (hamašxarhaynacʻum), գլոբալացում (hy) (globalacʻum)
Azerbaijani: qloballaşma
Belarusian: глабаліза́цыя f (hlabalizácyja)
Bengali: বিশ্বায়ন (bn) (biśśaẏon)
Bulgarian: глобализа́ция f (globalizácija)
Burmese: ဂလိုဘယ်လိုက်ဇေးရှင်း (ga.luibhailuikje:hrang:)
Catalan: globalització (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 全球化 (zh) (quánqiúhuà)
Czech: globalizace (cs) f
Danish: globalisering c
Dutch: globalisering (nl) f, mondialisering (nl) f
Esperanto: tutmondiĝo
Estonian: üleilmastumine, globaliseerumine
Finnish: globalisaatio (fi), maailmanlaajuistuminen
French: mondialisation (fr) f
Galician: globalización (gl) f
Georgian: გლობალიზაცია (globalizacia)
German: Globalisierung (de) f
Greek: παγκοσμιοποίηση (el) f (pagkosmiopoíisi)
Hebrew: גְּלוֹבָּלִיזָצְיָה f (globalizátsya)
Hindi: हलिमिकरण m (halimikaraṇ), वैश्वीकरण (hi) m (vaiśvīkaraṇ), भूमंडलीकरण m (bhūmaṇḍalīkaraṇ)
Hungarian: globalizáció (hu)
Indonesian: globalisasi (id)
Italian: globalizzazione (it) f
Japanese: グローバリゼーション (ja) (gurōbarizēshon), グローバライゼーション (gurōbaraizēshon), グローバル化 (ja) (グローバルか, gurōbaruka), 世界化 (せかいか), 地球規模化 (ちきゅうきぼか, chikyūkiboka)
Kazakh: жаһандану (jahandanuw), ғаламдану (kk) (ğalamdanuw)
Korean: 세계화(世界化) (segyehwa), 글로벌화 (geullobeolhwa)
Kyrgyz: глобалдашуу (globaldaşuu), ааламдашуу (aalamdaşuu), глобализация (globalizatsiya)
Lao: ໂລກາພິວັດ (lō kā phi wat)
Latin: globalizatio f
Latvian: globalizācija f
Lithuanian: globalizacija f
Macedonian: глобализација f (globalizacija)
Malay: globalisasi (ms)
Malayalam: ആഗോളവത്കരണം (āgōḷavatkaraṇaṁ)
Marathi: जागतिकीकरण n (jāgtikīkraṇ)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: даяарчлал (mn) (dajaarčlal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: globalisering m or f

Nynorsk: globalisering f
Persian: جهانی‌سازی (jahâni-sâzi), جهانی‌شدن (jahâni-šodan)
Polish: globalizacja (pl) f
Portuguese: globalização (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸੰਸਾਰੀਕਰਨ (sansārīkran)
Romanian: globalizare f
Russian: глобализа́ция (ru) f (globalizácija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: глобализа́ција f

Latin: globalizácija (sh) f
Slovak: globalizácia f
Slovene: globalizacija f
Spanish: globalización (es) f, mundialización m
Swahili: utandawazi (sw) class u
Swedish: globalisering (sv) c
Tagalog: globalisasyon
Tajik: ҷаҳонишудан (jahonišudan), глобализатсия (globalizatsiya)
Tamil: உலகமயமாதல் (ulakamayamātal)
Tatar: глобальләшү (globalʹläşü)
Thai: โลกาภิวัตน์ (th) (loo-gaa-pí-wát)
Turkish: küreselleşme (tr), globalleşme (tr)
Ukrainian: глобаліза́ція f (hlobalizácija)
Uyghur: يەرشارىلىشىش (yersharilishish)
Uzbek: globalizatsiya, globallashuv (uz)
Vietnamese: toàn cầu hóa (vi) (全球化)
Welsh: globaleiddiad m
Yiddish: גלאָבאַליזאַציע f (globalizatsye)
Yoruba: ètò sayé dọ̀kan

process of world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models

Czech: globalizace (cs) f
Dutch: globalisering (nl) f
Esperanto: tutmondiĝo
Estonian: üleilmastumine, globaliseerumine
Finnish: globalisaatio (fi), maailmanlaajuistuminen
French: mondialisation (fr) f
Galician: globalización (gl) m
Georgian: გლობალიზაცია (globalizacia)
German: Globalisierung (de) f
Latin: globalizatio f
Macedonian: глобализа́ција f (globalizácija)
Portuguese: globalização (pt) f
Russian: глобализа́ция (ru) f (globalizácija)
Spanish: globalización (es) m, mundialización f

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