McWorld

English

noun
Definitions
  • The spreading of McDonald's restaurants throughout the world as the result of globalization.
  • (by extension) The effects of international McDonaldization of services and commercialization of goods and services as an element of globalization as a whole.

Etymology

Prefix from English world.

Origin

English

world

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