legalize
English
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[edit]legalize (third-person singular simple present legalizes, present participle legalizing, simple past and past participle legalized)
- To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
- There is a debate whether or not to legalize some of the softer drugs.
- 1987, Dian Cohen, Money, page 155:
- This is true despite the fact that in 1986, the federal government legalized the cashability of RRSP annuities.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 71:
- Legislative reform campaigns aimed at restricting foreign immigration, mandating state institutionalization of the biologically unfit, and legalizing eugenical involuntary sterilization.
- 2007 August 22, “Virginia’s Gun Market”, in The New York Times[1]:
- But now a legislative battle looms over the gun lobby’s brazen counterinitiative to legalize concealed weapons on campus.
- 2021 September 23, Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Troy Closson, “New York Has Legalized Marijuana. Here’s What to Know.”, in The New York Times[2]:
- State lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday that legalizes the drug for adults 21 and older and moves toward the creation of a potential $4.2 billion industry that could become one of the nation’s largest markets.
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[edit]make legal
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Galician
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[edit]legalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of legalizar:
Portuguese
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[edit]legalize
- inflection of legalizar:
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