Synonym: develop, modernise, overhaul. Similar words: modern, fraternize, postmodern, ultramodern, moderate, immoderately, mode, model. Meaning: ['mɑdərnaɪz /'mɒdn-] 
v. 1. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to 2. become technologically advanced.
v. 1. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to 2. become technologically advanced. 
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1, If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.
2, The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network.
3, They need more funds to modernize the country's telephone system.
4, There are plans to modernize the US strategic forces.
5, Unfortunately we lack the resources to modernize.
6, Plans to modernize have been set in train.
7, The business will lose money if it doesn't modernize.
8, They resisted our attempts to modernize the distribution of books.
9, Economic reforms are needed to pacify and modernize the country.
10, The company is investing $9 million to modernize its factories.
11, The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
12, It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.
13, Any money raised will be used to modernize classrooms.
14, Salinas pledged to modernize Mexico when he was elected.
15, They began a crash program to modernize and strengthen their fleet and to build nuclear weapons with ICBMs to carry them.
16, Our aim was to modernize the health service,[sentencedict.com][http://sentencedict.com/modernize.html] and we succeeded.
17, Measures will be taken to help modernize the country's armed forces.
18, And Cohen is adamant about the need to modernize tactical aviation, the analyst said.
19, The society want to be modern, personality must modernize.
20, Siemens to modernize automation system at Bayer CropScience.
21, Studies on Value Identity of China's Struggle to Modernize.
22, These countries need to carry out far-reaching reforms to modernize their economies.
23, The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
24, It was disclosed that ￡3.5 million was needed to modernize the building.
25, If they want to increase output from the factory, they'll have to modernize.
26, A US$5,900 million development fund would be set up to help domestic industry modernize so that its products could compete with new imports.
27, Aesthetically it's a dead loss now that they've tried to modernize everything.
28, The older universities of Oxford and Cambridge were also persuaded to modernize their science teaching in the 1870s.
29, It was suspected that he wished to abolish slavery, to found schools, to build roads and to modernize the country.
30, This was an important step towards a national health service, though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities.
More similar words: modern, fraternize, postmodern, ultramodern, moderate, immoderately, mode, model, modest, immodest, modestly, role model, ionize, economic model, denizen, agonize, eternity, colonize, organize, pernicious, maternity, paternity, overnight, galvanize, urbanized, recognize, harmonize, organized, patronize, concerning.