criminalisation
criminalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalization.
Meaning of criminalization
Noun
criminalization (countable and uncountable, plural criminalizations)
- The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
- And of course, s/m players who participate in breath play will also be more vulnerable to criminalization under such a new law.2014, Ummni Khan, Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN
- The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.
Forms of criminalisation
| plural | criminalisations |
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Origin of criminalisation
From criminal + -isation or criminalise + -ation.
Words formed from criminalisation
Words that rhyme with criminalisation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about criminalisation
- What is criminalisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
- Criminalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalization.
Words near criminalisation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: criminalisation (page history and authors); criminalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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