illegalization

The act or process of illegalizing.

Noun

  1. The act or process of illegalizing.
    • “Once the drug illegalization crowd gets hold of it, that’s that,” said Alexander Shulgin, a former Dow chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, which has also been made a controlled substance. - 2008 May...

Origin

From illegalize + -ation or il- + legalization.

Forms

illegalizations

Antonyms

legalization

Hypernyms

legal reclassification