Definition of "dieselization" []

• The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel (noun)
• The replacement of petrol engines with diesel engines (noun)

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• "But the flipside of the coin is, once upon a time diesel was subsidised like this and Dr. Vijay Kelkar used to call it the dieselization of the Indian economy."
• "Delivered to the railroad in 1944, the 844 was the last steam locomotive built for the Union Pacific before dieselization."
• "This was followed by increasing dieselization in Europe, and essentially, what ‟ s been happening over the last few years is that as the world refining centers move to hit the diesel targets, they are producing a lot of gasoline for which there is no local market."