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illegalisation

illegalisation is the alternative form of illegalization.

Meaning of illegalization

Noun

illegalization (countable and uncountable, plural illegalizations)

  1. The act or process of illegalizing.
    • “Once the drug illegalization crowd gets hold of it, that’s that,” said Alexander Shulgin, a former Dow chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, which has also been made a controlled substance.2008 May 4, Benedict Carey, “A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle”, in New York Times

Forms of illegalisation

pluralillegalisations

Origin of illegalisation

From illegal + -isation.

Questions about illegalisation

What is illegalisation the alternative form of?
Illegalisation is the alternative form of illegalization.

Words near illegalisation in the dictionary

  1. illegal numbers
  2. illegal prime
  3. illegal primes
  4. illegaler
  5. illegalest
  6. illegalisation
  7. illegalisations
  8. illegalise
  9. illegalised
  10. illegalises
  11. illegalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illegalisation (page history and authors); illegalization (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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