Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of totalizing, or the state of being totalized. Also spelled totalisation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.

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Examples

  • "The principle of totalization is indeed ontological," he writes, "in that it has to be sought in the discontinuous structure of being itself" (RCC

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • These "totalization" agreements generally help workers in two ways: First, when you work in one country but are a citizen of the other, your wages are subject to Social Security taxation by only one country.

    Ask Encore 2008

  • In what some would consider the culmination of his thought, he weds Existentialist biography with Marxian social critique in a Hegelian "totalization" of an individual and his era, to produce the last of his many incompleted projects, a multi-volume study of Flaubert's life and times, The Family Idiot (1971-1972).

    Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

  • Now we know why Bush has been more persistent in pursuing "totalization" to put illegal aliens into Social Security than to promote his proposal to privatize a small part of Social Security for American citizens.

    Coalition Against Illegal Immigration 2009

  • However, nonetheless, the contrast she develops between historical materialists like Sartre - and everyone needs to be reading Sartre's later work and Nina is singular among the neo-Marxists in that she's doing genuine work to re-invigorate its relevance despite unfortunate rhetorical choices he made like use of terms like "totalization" (talk about poor timing!) - and ontologists that race to the bottom of meaninglessness is only plausible where being is treated as something outside the human.

    Larval Subjects . 2009

  • Breaking the sentence, or “statement,” down into phrases was a way to combat a false sense of truth — “totalization” — thus to replace it with a sense of contingency proper to our experience in the new world order.

    Panel 2: Aesthetic Lineage and Originality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • The act of bringing everything within the scope of awareness—either in terms of external detail or inner principle—is labeled by numerous contemporary philosophers as totalization, and is heavily contested on a number of grounds.

    Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009

  • There is also a spiritual argument against this totalization.

    Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009

  • As for the comment about 10 years, under the totalization agreement pushed by the Bush administration, illegal aliens could get benefits after as little as 1.5 years of work.

    IL-06: NRCC Sends Out "Welcome To America" Kit Attacking Duckworth 2009

  • And, in addition to the amnesty giveaway, there's also Bush's totalization agreement with Mexico.

    IL-06: Obama Slams Roskam In Duckworth Immigration Ad 2009

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