criminalization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- criminalisation (mainly UK)
Etymology[edit]
criminal + -ization or criminalize + -ation
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
criminalization (countable and uncountable, plural criminalizations)
- The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
- The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- legal reclassification
Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
making a previously legal activity illegal
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turning someone into a criminal
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Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krey-
- English terms suffixed with -ization
- English terms suffixed with -ation
- English 6-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Crime