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  • v  impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon
  • v  make more industrial or city-like
  • s  made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics
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  • Samsung aims to double its smartphone sales in Africa in 2014
    Samsung Electronics expects to supply half of the smartphones sold in Africa this year and aims to double these sales on the continent in 2014, an executive said. Africa has a growing young population that is increasingly tech savvy and urbanised. This is attracting foreign sellers of consumer products like smartphones, especially as markets stagnate or shrink in more developed nations. Although ...
    Nov. 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Hangama in ReliefWeb (press release)
    From the remotest villages to urbanised areas including Kabul, women are being abused,rights activist Hangama Anwari said at a briefing to release a report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).
  • David Attenborough in SmartPlanet.com
    Sir David told us at the launch: "Over 50 per cent of the world's population is urbanised and out of touch with the nature 100 per cent of us depend on. Live transmissions [from nature] are crucial in connecting people to the world we're all part...
  • Galarrwuy Yunupingu in The Australian
    An urbanised contemporary leadership is not helping the situation of indigenous people in the bush,says Yunupingu. "It never has in the past; most of those leaders stole the show, took over the national body, and left us with nothing."

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