liberalization

liberalize | American Dictionary

liberalize
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈlɪb·ər·əˌlɑɪz/

liberalizeverb[I/T] (BE SOCIALLY LIBERAL)

to allow many different types of beliefs or behavior, or to allow for changes in the way things are done:
[ T ]They have plans to liberalize the prison system (= make it less severe).

liberalizeverb[I/T] (BE POLITICALLY LIBERAL)

to make new laws when necessary because of changing conditions and to depend on the government to provide social services:
[ T ]efforts to liberalize the nation's immigration laws. (= make it easier for someone from another country to become a citizen).

liberalism

noun[ U ]us/ˈlɪb·ər·əˌlɪz·əm/
She opposes liberalism and big-government solutions.

liberalization

noun[ U ]us/ˌlɪb·ər·ə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən/
political/trade liberalization

liberalize | Business English

liberalize
verb[ T ]
(Uk alsoliberalise)uk /ˈlɪbərəlaɪz//-rəl-/ us /-ɚ-/
to allow more freedom in laws, systems, or opinions:
They will work with a view to further liberalize the investment regime.

liberalizer

noun[ C ](UK alsoliberaliser)
He has presented himself as a liberaliser.

Examples of liberalize

liberalize
States with significant labor movements (measured by numbers of strikes) were more resistant to liberalized incorporation law.
This means that pricing policies that favour perennial crops-including those policies that liberalize agricultural trade-can and will encourage tree planting.
More people think it is better to liberalize agricultural markets rather than protect them.
While some legal restraints on labour may exist, liberalized labour markets are underpinned principally by the electoral dominance of pro-neoliberal parties.
It reacted by providing a place for folk mass aesthetics, but refused to liberalize theologically.
The great irony is that as the states liberalized their charter law they lost some control over the direction of economic development.
Unfortunately, for political economy reasons, in many cases it is easier to liberalize non-agricultural than agricultural imports.
Such a model could also shed light on the political pressures that the government of a closed economy faces to liberalize.
Over time, the consolidation provisions were liberalized in many states.
Only in the next year would it more systematically examine and liberalize its charter law (more on this below).
Since 2002, the airwaves have been liberalized and several private radio stations are in operation.
In 1974 deposit and lending rates of more than a two-year term were liberalized.
Both countries went through parallel transition paths, and yet were late in liberalizing.
Many states liberalized their laws well before the development of industrial securities of the 1890s.
By contrast, non-democracies are quite unlikely to liberalize commerce when power is highly concentrated.
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