formalize

Found in thesaurus: hold, adjudge, declare, clear, authorize, pass, authorise

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formalize (Amer.)
v. make official, make formal; make legally valid; affect formality; give a shape or form to, model (also formalise)

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formalize

Verb
1. make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
(synonym) formalise
(hypernym) declare, adjudge, hold
(hyponym) ritualize, ritualise
(derivation) formalization, formalisation
2. declare or make legally valid
(synonym) validate, formalise
(hypernym) authorize, authorise, pass, clear
(hyponym) sign, ratify
(derivation) formalization, formalisation


Babylon Portuguese-EnglishDownload this dictionary
formalizar
v. formalize, make formal

Babylon English-PolishDownload this dictionary
formalize (Amer.)
Czas. formalizować

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Formalize
(v. t.)
To render formal.
  
 
(v. t.)
To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
  
 
(v. i.)
To affect formality.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About