WikiWord

English

criminalisation

noun

Meaning

  1. The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
  2. The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
criminalisation — meaning and etymology | WikiWord