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decriminalisation

noun

Meaning

  1. The act of making a previously criminal activity no longer treatable as a criminal offence.
  2. The act of turning a criminal into a non-criminal by making their activities legal.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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