how to pronounce urbanization

/ˌɜː.bən.aɪˈzɛɪ.ʃən/

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urbanization is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of urbanization in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… in urbanization the growth of cities and …”

meanings of urbanization

noun:

The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing.
The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
The process of the formation and growth of cities.

urbanization frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word urbanization occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics urbanization can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that urbanization can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;