verb B2 Upper-Intermediate

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Modernise (verb) means a non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernize.

verb

A non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernize.

"The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime." — D. S. Barrie, The Railways of South Wales (1939)

"The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end." — Pip Dunn, The next king of Scotland (2019)

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