v. To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
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v. make legal
Word Usage
""You know, saying the word legalise, I think that happens to be one of those words that conveys a sense of meaning and until you talk to each other you don't realise that actually we don't mean the same thing at all," Mr Killorin says."