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# How to pronounce "dollarize" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/dɒllæræɪz/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **dol·la·rize**

## Meaning & Usage

### VERB
- To undergo dollarization; to start using the dollar as currency.
  - *Example*: "To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts. […] Economists at Capital Economics wrote in an August note that dollarized countries El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador show “markedly lower inflation than elsewhere in the region.”"
- To convert to dollars.

### Example Sentences
- "To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts. […] Economists at Capital Economics wrote in an August note that dollarized countries El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador show “markedly lower inflation than elsewhere in the region.”"
- "dollarize the economy gradually or in one hit which would have a huge impact on the markets or is it going to be a last minute thing when he gets into"
- "dollarize the economy I think with this government I will find it very difficult that Argentina does find those resources from China or from Qatar for that matt"

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "dollarize" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "weeks before he takes office that we'll hopefully see some details for these pretty vague plans at the moment to how he's going to do that is he going to dollarize the economy gradually or in one hit which would have a huge impact on the markets or is it going to be a last minute thing when he gets into office"
- **Watch at 5:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVtoSxIQds&t=355s)

### Example 2
> "the People's Bank of China but will countries still lend to to Argentina to dollarize the economy I think with this government I will find it very difficult that Argentina does find those resources from China or from Qatar for that matter because it's a very different government yeah I mean Argentina was in good relations with the previous uh populist government so the question is who is"
- **Watch at 5:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOi3o1lMcWA&t=331s)

### Example 3
*Accent: US*
> "dollarize the benefits of the shipping in the tourist industry you melt the ice in the Arctic they have shorter Roots you can so you have tens of millions of"
- **Watch at 83:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlHbt5jja4&t=5027s)

### Example 4
> "changes that occur all the time, but we have seen economies that are highly dollarized try to return to the home currency. And so it is those examples that I pull out uh because once you uh uh and the public at large is"
- **Watch at 0:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0hRxyyJIo&t=35s)

### Example 5
> "that I think inflation will come down Malay has also said that the one true way to stop the government or future governments from printing that money is to dollarize the economy to essentially rely on the US dollar for economic transactions of course Argentina cannot print US dollars that would be a radical step is it still is it still realistic based on what we've seen so far from"
- **Watch at 3:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJrKLbebmw&t=235s)

### Example 6
> "getting from and what about this d dollarization uh Trend I mean I guess we could call it a trend but there is this movement to de-dollarize oil sales does that help Russia um honestly I don't think um I don't think it will um if anything actually was some of the movement that we're seeing right with Will flowing to those other countries um within the bricks especially"
- **Watch at 4:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9UAHYuHaA&t=243s)

### Example 7
> "currency board and uh defaulted. So very close to that date, Ecuador also defaulted. It was however like a structured kind of default and then fully dollarized. Panama dollarized much earlier. So you know there's countries that opt for dollarization. Erh, but generally I would argue um you know Panama is a financial sector. If you tell me Hong Kong Hong Kong dollar respect to the dollar is an exception but Ecuador has"
- **Watch at 17:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOPYuh_NWZ0&t=1064s)

### Example 8
> "oil natural gas and coal to places such as Brazil and India we know that there are attempts to de-dollarize oil sales on the global market I mean is this an issue that the G7 group can't address so the rerouting itself is not an issue"
- **Watch at 3:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9UAHYuHaA&t=180s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "substantially how do you dollarize it how do you treat it in cost benefit analysis what's the correct metric for an international"
- **Watch at 87:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlHbt5jja4&t=5240s)

### Example 10
*Accent: UK*
> "the need to dollarize the economy the idea was basically to entirely switch out the Argentine peso and use dollars"
- **Watch at 7:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoI0RM8QI-Q&t=451s)


## How to Pronounce "dollarize"

- **Syllables**: dol · la · rize
- **IPA**: `/dɒllæræɪz/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[dollarizes](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dollarizes), [dollarized](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dollarized), [dollarizing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dollarizing), [dollarization](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dollarization)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “dollarize”?
“dollarize” is pronounced /dɒllæræɪz/ (dol · la · rize). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “dollarize”?
“dollarize” has 3 syllables: dol · la · rize.

### What does “dollarize” mean?
To undergo dollarization; to start using the dollar as currency.

### How can I hear “dollarize” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “dollarize” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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