liberalization

[ lib-er-uh-lahy-zey-shuhn, lib-ruh- ]

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noun

the state of being or becoming more favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs:
The liberalization of Anglican thought predates the rise of Protestant fundamentalism.
the act or process of making something, such as laws or regulations, less restrictive, or the state of being or becoming less restrictive:
The president has proposed liberalization of the criminal code to allow for a reduction in maximum sentences and the introduction of monetary fines for less severe offenses.
The government is updating existing contracts with some foreign companies to favor liberalization and free market competition.

Widespread greed, corruption, and sexual violence predate economic liberalization in 1991.

The president is expected to call for more liberalization agreements in the State of the Union.

Global shipping and trade liberalization has made it more practical to manufacture in low wage countries.

Bashar al-Assad favored the adoption of Western-promoted neoliberalism and economic liberalization.

Economic liberalization without political reform to spread that wealth triggered the civil war, writes Majid Rafizadeh.

After the war she will probably lead all other countries in a sane and scientific liberalization.

Within the church two forces are working towards its liberalization.

It was enlargement, liberalization, extension of intellectual opportunity for man simply as man.

For one thing, the liberalization of policy and practices affected only a relatively small percentage of the Negroes in the Navy.

Again an apparent liberalization of departmental racial policy actually promised very little change.

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