DEFINITIONS!

globalization or globalisation (ˌɡləʊb ə laɪˈzeɪʃən)

— n

1. the process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications

2. the emergence since the 1980s of a single world market dominated by multinational companies, leading to a diminishing capacity for national governments to control their economies

3. the process by which a company, etc, expands to operate internationally

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“It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.”
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culture (ˈkʌltʃə)

— n

1. the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action

2. the total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group: the Mayan culture

3. a particular civilization at a particular period

4. the artistic and social pursuits, expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners, dress, etc

5. the enlightenment or refinement resulting from these pursuits

6. the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour that characterize and inform society as a whole or any social group within it: yob culture

7. the cultivation of plants, esp by scientific methods designed to improve stock or to produce new ones

8. stockbreeding the rearing and breeding of animals, esp with a view to improving the strain

9. the act or practice of tilling or cultivating the soil

10. biology

a. See also culture medium the experimental growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, in a nutrient substance (culture medium), usually under controlled conditions

b. a group of microorganisms grown in this way

— vb

11. to cultivate (plants or animals)

12. to grow (microorganisms) in a culture medium

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“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”
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civilization or civilisation (ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən)

— n

1. a human society that has highly developed material and spiritual resources and a complex cultural, political, and legal organization; an advanced state in social development

2. the peoples or nations collectively who have achieved such a state

3. the total culture and way of life of a particular people, nation, region, or period: classical civilization

4. the process of bringing or achieving civilization

5. intellectual, cultural, and moral refinement

6. cities or populated areas, as contrasted with sparsely inhabited areas, deserts, etc

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“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character”
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history (ˈhɪstərɪ, ˈhɪstrɪ)

— n , pl -ries

1. a. a record or account, often chronological in approach, of past events, developments, etc

b. ( as modifier ): a history book ; a history play

2. all that is preserved or remembered of the past, esp in written form

3. the discipline of recording and interpreting past events involving human beings

4. past events, esp when considered as an aggregate

5. an event in the past, esp one that has been forgotten or reduced in importance: their quarrel was just history

6. the past, background, previous experiences, etc, of a thing or person: the house had a strange history

7. computing a stored list of the websites that a user has recently visited

8. a play that depicts or is based on historical events

9. a narrative relating the events of a character's life: the history of Joseph Andrews

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“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
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progress

— n

1. movement forwards, esp towards a place or objective

2. satisfactory development, growth, or advance: she is making progress in maths

3. advance towards completion, maturity, or perfection: the steady onward march of progres

4. ( modifier ) of or relating to progress: a progress report

5. biology increasing complexity, adaptation, etc, during the development of an individual or evolution of a group

6. ( Brit ) a stately royal journey

7. in progress taking place; under way

— vb

8. ( intr ) to move forwards or onwards, as towards a place or objective

9. to move towards or bring nearer to completion, maturity, or perfection

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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
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