legalization

English

Alternative forms

legalisation

Etymology

legalize +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

legalization (countable and uncountable, plural legalizations)

The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.
The hippies marched for the legalization of marijuana.

Antonyms

illegalization

Translations

process of making something legal

Asturian: llegalización f
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: melegalkan (id)
Italian: legalizzazione (it) f
Japanese: 合法化 (ごうほうか, gōhōka)
Korean: 합법화 (hapbeophwa) (合法化)
Portuguese: legalização (pt) f
Russian: легализа́ция (ru) f (legalizácija), узаконе́ние (ru) n (uzakonénije), узако́нивание (ru) n (uzakónivanije)
Spanish: legalización f
Swedish: legalisering (sv) c
Vietnamese: sự hợp pháp hoá (vi) (sự (vi) + 合法化)

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