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nostrification

nostrification noun: the process or act of granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university.

Noun

nostrification (countable and uncountable, plural nostrifications)

  1. The process or act of granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university.
  2. The expropriation of foreign-owned capital to domestic persons.
    • It was such acts of expropriating foreign-owned property—or what was called nostrification in postimperial Central Europe when the property was given to private nationals—that Hayek complained of in The Road to Serfdom.2018, Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, section 137

Forms of nostrification

pluralnostrifications

Origin of nostrification

First attested in 1885 as Latin nostr- (“our, ours”) + -ification.

Words formed from nostrification

Questions about nostrification

What does nostrification mean?
Nostrification means the process or act of granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university.
What part of speech is nostrification?
Nostrification is a noun.
What is the plural of nostrification?
The plural of nostrification is nostrifications.

Words near nostrification in the dictionary

  1. Nostraticists
  2. nostrificate
  3. nostrificated
  4. nostrificates
  5. nostrificating
  6. nostrification
  7. nostrifications
  8. nostrified
  9. nostrifies
  10. nostrify
  11. nostrifying

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