liberalizes
Makes rules looser
Liberalizes is the third-person singular of liberalize, meaning to make less restrictive or more open.
Governments liberalize trade policies, immigration laws, or regulations: The country liberalizes its banking sector to attract foreign investment.
Social liberalization loosens traditional constraints on behavior or expression.
The word implies movement toward greater freedom or permissiveness.
Removes governmental controls
- loosensDecreases tightness or tension
- relaxesBecomes less tense
- easesReduces severity or difficulty
- decriminalizesRemoves criminal penalties from
permits · allows · authorizes · enables · frees · unbans · legalizes · privatizes
Makes universally accessible
- reformsCorrective institutional changes
- modernizesMakes new again
- opens upBegins speaking candidly
- transitionsMovements between states
emancipates · enfranchises · empowers · decentralizes · transparency · accountability · representation · participation
Willingness to accept difference
- permissivenessTolerance of behavior others forbid
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- inclusivityPractice of welcoming all
- acceptanceConsent to receive
diversity · pluralism · secularizes · decriminalizes · destigmatizes · normalizes · progressivism · egalitarianism
Unregulated private exchange
privatization · laissez-faire · capitalism · deregulation · foreign investment · competition · entrepreneurship · subsidies
deregulates
Removes governmental controls
decriminalizes · permits · allows · authorizes · enables · frees · unbans · legalizes · privatizes · reform
democratizes
Makes universally accessible
- reformsCorrective institutional changes
- modernizesMakes new again
- opens upBegins speaking candidly
transitions · emancipates · enfranchises · empowers · decentralizes · transparency · accountability · representation · participation · civil liberties
tolerance
Willingness to accept difference
- permissivenessTolerance of behavior others forbid
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- inclusivityPractice of welcoming all
acceptance · diversity · pluralism · secularizes · decriminalizes · destigmatizes · normalizes · progressivism · egalitarianism · civil rights
free-market
Unregulated private exchange
exports · privatization · laissez-faire · capitalism · deregulation · foreign investment · competition · entrepreneurship · subsidies · quotas
- decentralizationdecentralized, distribute, spread, disperse, scatter
liberalizesrestricts
Places limits upon
tightens · constrains · curtails · limits · regulates
liberalizesconservatizes
Makes more traditional
entrenches · ossifies · rigidifies · codifies · institutionalizes
liberalizescloses
Brings to an end
shuts down · protects · nationalizes · monopolizes · centralizes
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