Usually means: Reducing or removing legal penalties.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word decriminalizing:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. decriminalizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. decriminalizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decriminalizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Decriminalizing, decriminalizing: Wordnik
  5. decriminalizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decriminalizing: Wiktionary
  7. decriminalizing: Dictionary.com
  8. decriminalizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Decriminalizing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. decriminalizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See decriminalize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decriminalize)

verb:  (transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
▸ Also see decriminalize


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