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Definition of Criminalize

1. Verb. Treat as a criminal.

2. Verb. Declare illegal; outlaw. "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S."

Definition of Criminalize

1. Verb. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Criminalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminalize

criminal record criminal records criminal suit criminalisation criminalise criminalised criminalises criminalising criminalism criminalist

criminalistics criminalists criminalities criminality criminalization criminalize (current term) criminalized criminalizes criminalizing criminally

criminalness criminals criminate criminated criminates criminating crimination criminations criminative criminatory

Literary usage of Criminalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Terrorist Financing: Better Strategic Planning Needed to Coordinate U. S by Loren Yager (2006)
"Obligates ratifying countries to criminalize money laundering via domestic ... Obligates countries to criminalize actions to finance terrorism and deny all ..."

2. Threat To U.s. Trade And Finance From Drug Trafficking And International edited by Charles E. Grassley (1999)
"The April 1996 OECD recommended that member countries end this practice and also passed another recommendation to criminalize transnational bribery ..."

3. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"Zambia and Botswana do not mention "sodomy," but have provisions in their colonial-era, British-inspired penal codes which criminalize "carnal knowledge ..."

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