1. to make suburban in character; to develop (an area) into suburbs
Usage: British spelling

Examples

• The city council plans to suburbanise the outer districts.
• Rapid development began to suburbanise the formerly rural area.
• They want to suburbanise this region with new housing estates.
• The government’s policy will suburbanise much of the countryside.
• Developers continue to suburbanise land around major cities.
• The area was suburbanised during the post-war building boom.