naturalization

naturalize | American Dictionary

naturalize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈnætʃ·ər·əˌlɑɪz/
to make someone a legal citizen of a country that the person was not born in

naturalization

noun[ U ]us/ˌnætʃ·ər·ə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən/
She’s applied for naturalization.

naturalize | Business English

naturalize
verb[ I or T ]
 LAW (UK alsonaturalise)uk /ˈnætʃərəlaɪz/us
to make someone a citizen of a country they were not born in, or to become a citizen of a country you were not born in:
be/become naturalizedAbout 700,000 immigrants were naturalized as citizens last year, officials said.
Not all permanent residents are eligible to naturalize.
a naturalized citizen

Examples of naturalize

naturalize
In so doing, the strong programme is led to "naturalize" criticism as well, in such a way as to dispense with the critic's role therein.
I argue that, once language use is personified in this way, the value of language is naturalized in the attributes of persons.
Because it naturalizes the relation between character and actor, setting and world, realism operates in concert with ideology.
The former is condemned and the latter is naturalized, not even commented upon.
Changes in architectural patterns both reflect cultural change and contributed to naturalizing new social orders.
The specific claim was that hundreds of ballots were cast by "aliens," that is, foreign-born individuals who had never been naturalized.
Using these technologies, the experimenters sought to naturalize the spirit world by bringing it under their own control.
The attempt to naturalize the supernatural was meant to cancel out the divide between matter and spirit, knowledge and value, science and revelation.
It is precisely through such legitimation practices that schools disguise and thus naturalize social differences, with a specific degree of relative autonomy.
Once naturalized, cameos and videos can be as familiar as the older dominoes and potatoes.
Such an attitude only naturalizes a man's sexuality and accepts it as part of his masculinity.
Yet their larger meaning and significance (and that of their counterparts, naturalizing images), is not at all clear.
What did not change markedly was the content of these assertions, however diversely naturalized.
Spirits were naturalized by showing how active principles worked in matter.
Unless and until the problem of naturalizing semantics is solved, a defense of physicalism, in particular, must rely heavily on plausibility considerations.
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