Usually means: Making an action legally punishable.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word criminalizing:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. criminalizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. criminalizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. criminalizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Criminalizing, criminalizing: Wordnik
  5. criminalizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. criminalizing: Wiktionary
  7. criminalizing: Dictionary.com
  8. criminalizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. criminalizing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

(Note: See criminalize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (criminalize)

verb:  (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as a criminal.
▸ Also see criminalize


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