Usually means: Adapting non-native elements locally.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word naturalizing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. naturalizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. naturalizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. naturalizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Naturalizing, naturalizing: Wordnik
  5. naturalizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. naturalizing: Wiktionary
  7. naturalizing: Dictionary.com
  8. naturalizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Naturalizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Naturalizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. naturalizing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. naturalizing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. naturalizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. naturalizing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. naturalizing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See naturalize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (naturalize)

verb:  (transitive) To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
verb:  (transitive) To acclimatize an animal or plant.
verb:  To make natural.
verb:  (transitive) To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
verb:  (linguistics, transitive) To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To study nature.
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