| 单词 | liberalize |
| 释义 | liberalize (once / 4656 pages) v Liberalize means to make more liberal––as in, less authoritarian and more open. State-run economies might liberalize by opening up industry, free enterprise, and trade. Liberalize can also mean "reform." If you have a society that punishes theft by cutting off a culprit's hand, you could liberalize it by changing the punishment to jail time or other less cruel and unusual punishment. WORD FAMILYliberalize: liberalization, liberalized, liberalizes, liberalizing+/illiberal: illiberality, illiberally/illiberality: illiberalities/liberal: illiberal, liberalise, liberalism, liberality, liberalize, liberally, liberalness, liberals, neoliberal/liberalise: liberalisation, liberalised, liberalising/liberalism: liberalisms, liberalist, liberalistic, neoliberalism/liberalist: liberalists/liberality: liberalities/liberalization: liberalizations/neoliberal: neoliberals USAGE EXAMPLESI was sure that the Soviet Union would be forced to liberalize socially and economically to survive. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) His younger brother never gave much ground to the Obama administration in terms of liberalizing Cuba's one party political system. Reuters(Nov 27, 2016) And he seems to have stood out with right-wing primary voters for his promises of radical — by French standards — action to liberalize the economy. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2016) 1v become more liberal The laws liberalized after Prohibition Syn|Hyper liberalise liberalise make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules Syn|Hypo|Hyper liberalise liberalise become more liberal decontrol relax or remove controls of alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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