Crossword clues for liberalization
liberalization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liberalization \Lib`er*al*i*za"tion\ (-al*[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act of liberalizing; the act of making less strict.
Syn: liberalization, relaxation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794; see liberal + -ization.
Wiktionary
alt. The process or act of making more liberal. n. The process or act of making more liberal.
WordNet
n. the act of making less strict [syn: liberalisation, relaxation]
Wikipedia
Liberalization (or liberalisation) is a relaxation of government restrictions, usually in such areas of social, political and economic policy. This may be similar to deregulation. Liberalization of autocratic regimes may precede democratization (or not, as in the case of the Prague Spring).
Usage examples of "liberalization".
Reagan did not do - yet no mention is made of the small matter of his large role in winning the Cold War and setting the stage for massive liberalization in Eastern Europe, which he most assuredly did do.
But to liberalize anything was a major undertaking, because any liberalization of any rule might be seen as a theological error--this in a country where apostasy was a capital crime.
First employed, in tandem with the less-easily defined term glasnost, which can mean either 'openness' or 'publicity' depending upon the context, by spokespersons for the Soviet Kremlin during the latter half of the twentieth century, Old Calendar, to specify a vast and pervasive liberalization of a heretofore strictly hierarchized Soviet government.