To make an arrangement, policy or practice less restrictive or more open.
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Words that belong together
- liberalize trade
- liberalize access
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The agreement liberalized trade in the specified goods but did not remove every barrier.
The institution liberalized access while retaining requirements intended to protect the collection.
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Word forms
- Base
- liberalize
- Past tense
- liberalized
- Past participle
- liberalized
- Present participle
- liberalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- liberalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are liberalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has liberalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been liberalizing
- Past
- liberalized
- Past continuous
- was/were liberalizing
- Past perfect
- had liberalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been liberalizing
- Future
- will liberalize
- Future continuous
- will be liberalizing
- Future perfect
- will have liberalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been liberalizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: liberalize; liberalizes; liberalized; liberalized; liberalizing 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. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: liberalizes.
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