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nostrifications

nostrifications is the plural of nostrification.

Meaning of nostrification

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

Questions about nostrifications

What is nostrifications the plural of?
Nostrifications is the plural of nostrification.

Words near nostrifications in the dictionary

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

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