What is another word for modernisation?

Pronunciation: [mˌɒdəna͡ɪzˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Modernisation is the process of updating things to make them more modern and efficient. There are several synonyms for the word modernisation, which include renovation, revitalisation, rejuvenation, and refurbishment. Renovation refers to the act of improving or updating something that is old or no longer in use. Revitalisation refers to restoring something to an optimal condition. Rejuvenation refers to making something look or feel younger or more energized. Refurbishment refers to the act of giving something a complete overhaul or making it like new again. All of these synonyms share a common goal of making things more modern and efficient, in order to improve their overall usefulness.

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Usage examples for Modernisation

Dr. Sommer's edition was used by Sir E. Strachey to revise his Globe text, and in 1897 Mr. Israel Gollancz produced for the "Temple Classics" a very pretty edition in which Sir Edward Strachey's principles of modernisation in spelling and punctuation were adopted, but with the restoration of obsolete words and omitted phrases.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory
As to his feelings on the political development of Japan, so entirely conservative were his prejudices, and so intense his dislike of the modernisation of the ancient civilisation, that he found satisfaction in the insulting remarks cast at him as he passed through the streets of Kobe, and in the relinquishing of the instruction of English literature in their colleges.
"Lafcadio Hearn"
Nina H. Kennard
She has stood fairly consistently against a modernisation of naval law; has insisted on the right of capture of merchant vessels and the right to blockade, and in the present war has reverted, under grave provocation it is true, to the most rigorous maritime repression.
"American World Policies"
Walter E. Weyl

Famous quotes with Modernisation

  • My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
    Kenzaburo Oe
  • Theories of modernisation are cod-scientific projections of Enlightenment values. They tell us nothing about the future. But they do help us to understand the present. They show the lingering power of the Christian faith that history is a moral drama, a tale of progress or redemption, in which - despite everything we know of it - morality rules the world.
    John Gray (philosopher)
  • ...there has accumulated a vast tangle of emergency legislation, regulations, barriers and restraints, out of all proportion to and often missing and distorting the needs of the situation. For the restoration and modernisation of human civilization, this exaggerated outlawing of the fellow citizen whom we see fit to suspect as a traitor or revolutionary and also of the stranger within our gates, has to be restrained and brought back within the scheme of human rights.
    H. G. Wells
  • The Shah described the modernisation of Iran as the principal goal of his life, and yet he adamantly refused to see that there could be no veritable modernisation without democracy. He often referred to his Swiss education as part of his credentials as a profoundly committed democrat, but was, at the same time, convinced that Iran was not yet ripe for democracy, and that it was his duty as 'the father of the nation' to save the Iranians from a slothful life of prayer, pilgrimage, small commerce, backward farming and cottage industry. He also wanted to turn Iran into a second Japan, make her one of the five or six major world powers by the end of the century. He regarded himself as the custodian of Iran's grandeur and freedom and in later years he extended his self-proclaimed mission of saving Iran to include the entire world.
    Amir Taheri

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