legalization

English

Alternative forms

• legalisation

Etymology

From legalize +‎ -ation. Piecewise doublet of loyalization.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

legalization (countable and uncountable, plural legalizations)

1. The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.

   The hippies marched for the legalization of marijuana.

Antonyms

• illegalization

Hypernyms

• legal reclassification

Derived terms

• antilegalization
• overlegalization
• relegalization

Translations

process of making something legal

• Asturian: llegalización
• Catalan: legalització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合法化 (zh) (héfǎhuà)

• Crimean Tatar: qanunlaştıruv, qanunlaştırma
• Finnish: laillistaminen (fi)
• French: légalisation (fr) f
• Galician: legalización (gl) f
• German: Legalisierung (de) f
• Greek: νομιμοποίηση (el) (nomimopoíisi)
• Hebrew: לגליזציה f (legalizátsya)
• Indonesian: pengesahan (id), legalisasi (id)
• Italian: legalizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 合法化 (ごうほうか, gōhōka)
• Kazakh: заңдастыру (zañdastyru)
• Korean: 합법화(合法化) (ko) (hapbeophwa)
• Māori: whakamanatanga
• Polish: legalizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: legalização (pt) f
• Russian: легализа́ция (ru) f (legalizácija), узаконе́ние (ru) n (uzakonénije), узако́нивание (ru) n (uzakónivanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: laghachd
• Spanish: legalización f
• Swahili: uhalalishaji
• Swedish: legalisering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: легаліза́ція (uk) f (lehalizácija), узако́нення n (uzakónennja)
• Vietnamese: sự hợp pháp hoá (vi) (sự (vi) + 合法化)