(BrE also militarise) verb [VN] [usuallypassive]
1 to send armed forces to an area:
a militarized zone
OPPDEMILITARIZE
2 to make sth similar to an army:
a militarized police force
militarization, militarisation noun [U]:
the increasing militarization of society
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