Crossword clues for legalise
legalise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legalise
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Banning drugs mainly promotes crime, so it would be better to legalise, control, tax and discourage them.
▪ Hey, why not legalise them?
▪ However, is it not time to consider the possibility of legalising soft drugs, especially cannabis?
▪ If we were to legalise soft drugs, that would no longer be a problem.
▪ The Government wants to legalise payment of higher salaries to non-trade union members.
▪ The legislation is not intended to legalise what already happens in the industry.
▪ Would it be the policy of the Labour party to legalise those drugs?
Wiktionary
legalise
vb. To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalise something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
WordNet
legalise
v. make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: outlaw, outlaw, outlaw, outlaw]
Usage examples of "legalise".
The complaisance of the King had legalised so many of the views that Nirienne had favoured for years that former charges of treason and sedition were simply nullified.
Finally the squire, legalising his foible by recognising it, fetched a ladder and a hatchet, and chopped off the boughs with his own hands.
In a country with legalised bookmaking, Marius Tollman might have grown up a respectable law-abiding citizen.