legalise

English

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Alternative forms

• legalize (American)

Etymology

legal +‎ -ise

Verb

legalise (third-person singular simple present legalises, present participle legalising, simple past and past participle legalised)

1. To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.

   There is a debate whether or not to legalise some of the softer drugs.

Antonyms

• criminalise, criminalize
• illegalise, illegalize

Derived terms

• legalisation, legalization

Translations

make legal

• Asturian: llegalizar (ast)
• Catalan: legalitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合法化 (cmn) (héfǎhuà)

• Dutch: legaliseren (nl)
• Esperanto: legalizi (eo)
• Finnish: laillistaa (fi)
• French: légaliser (fr)
• Galician: legalizar (gl)

• German: legalisieren (de)
• Italian: legalizzare (it)
• Japanese: 合法化する (ja) (ごうほうかする, gōhōka-suru)
• Korean: 합법화하다 (ko) (hapbeophwa-hada) (合法化 (ko) + 하다 (ko) (hada))
• Portuguese: legalizar (pt)
• Russian: легализовать (ru) (legalizovát'), узаконить (ru) (uzakónit')
• Spanish: legalizar (es)
• Vietnamese: hợp pháp hoá (vi) (合法化 (vi))

Anagrams

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