legalize

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to forbid someone or something
forbidHe grew up in a strict household where dating was forbidden.
disallowUpon review, the goal was disallowed.
banThe government has banned the sale of lead-based paint.
prohibitVehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
debar someone from something/doing something
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disallow
non-valid
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
unapproved
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

Examples of outlawed

outlawed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

None has outlawed faculty participation in speaker's bureaus, or participation in consulting arrangements that are thinly veiled marketing efforts.
This language made clear that only direct, purposive, individual acts of discrimination were to be outlawed, and not so-called "statistical discrimination" (inferred from numerical imbalances).
Also, half the schools studied outlawed student smoking but permitted staff to smoke.
The act of 1965 had outlawed racial discrimination in places of public entertainment and recreation.
Criminal organizations lure party-state bureaucrats into outlawed businesses as partners who share the 'profits'.
The evidence of the last 35 years (that is, the period during which such discrimination has been formally outlawed) gives little cause for optimism.
That it was outlawed as long ago as 1956 does not seem to have made much difference.
As regards autonomous groups, they will continue to be outlawed, although little is likely to be done to bring them to an end.
Matthews (1887, 94f) writes that, once this trade had been outlawed, traffic was conducted in an argot in which gems were referred to as 'calves'.
That is, no day of the week was specially favoured or outlawed.
Proposition 11, as it was known, would have outlawed discrimination in employment if it had passed.
One chapter takes up the question of mandatory retirement, which has been outlawed in higher education for more than a decade.
This has serious implications for governments' plans for national reconciliation with outlawed political groups.
The report stipulated that national activity in these "dangerous" areas would be outlawed.
Unsurprisingly, e the government promptly outlawed both movements.
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