ruralization
The English word “ruralization” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- the process of making rural.
- the change in a country or region when its population migrates from urban to rural areas
- the process of the formation of villages and the decline of big cities
- the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
Etymology
From rural + -ization.
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