Usually means: Formal authorization of something by law.
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  1. legalization: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legalization: Merriam-Webster
  3. legalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legalization: Collins English Dictionary
  5. legalization: Vocabulary.com
  6. Legalization, legalization: Wordnik
  7. legalization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. legalization: Wiktionary
  9. Legalization, legalization: Dictionary.com
  10. legalization: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Legalization (international law), Legalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Legalization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. legalization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. legalization: Rhymezone
  15. Legalization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. legalization: FreeDictionary.org
  17. legalization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. legalization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. legalization: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. legalization: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. legalization: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (legalization)

▸ noun:  The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.

Similar:
legalisation, delegalization, illegalization, relegalization, decriminalization, legitimization, criminalization, legalizer, decriminalisation, relegalisation, more...

Opposite:
criminalization, prohibition

Types:
decriminalization, depenalization, more...

Phrases:
marijuana legalization, Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States, more...

Adjectives:
full, consular, complete, formal, such, general, international, outright, partial, eventual, recent

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Similar:
legalisation, delegalization, illegalization, relegalization, decriminalization, legitimization, criminalization, legalizer, decriminalisation, relegalisation, more...

Opposite:
criminalization, prohibition

Types:
decriminalization, depenalization, more...

Phrases:
marijuana legalization, Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States, more...

Adjectives:
full, consular, complete, formal, such, general, international, outright, partial, eventual, recent

Colors:
    green,     white,     gold,     black,     blue, more...



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