Definition of "modernizing" []

• Present participle of modernize. (verb)

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• "The U.S. already leads all the nuclear powers in modernizing its nuclear arsenals."
• "Newark concludes that while Luciano played a pioneering role in modernizing the rackets during and after Prohibition, the jig was largely up after he went to jail on vice charges in 1936."
• "What we are seeing is probably the usual situation in modernizing societies - all social systems growing in complexity."