MEANING
The reduction of legal or institutional restrictions on activity.
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Words that belong together
- trade liberalization
- political liberalization
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Political liberalization allowed new associations to register.
Word forms
- Base
- liberalization
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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