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naturalization /natʃ(ə)rəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/(also naturalisation) noun [mass noun]1The admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country: an application for naturalization as a British citizen [as modifier]: the naturalization process can be intimidating...- For many, the requirements for immigration and naturalization have been made more difficult.
- An application was made to the Home Secretary who could grant naturalisation.
- As early as 1790, Americans began to restrict the naturalization of immigrants.
2 Biology The introduction of a plant or animal to a region where it is not indigenous: the first report of naturalization of this species in the United States the successful naturalization of trout in the barren waters of the Sierra...- As Sampson's notions about nature changed, so too did his techniques of naturalization.
- With the earlier naturalization of the shad, and later addition of the striped bass, the second aquarium car was a sort of piscine ark.
- The successful naturalization of trout in the barren waters of the Sierra comes close to the ideal of humanity improving nature.
3The alteration of an adopted foreign word so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language: French naturalization of Creole words or phrases...- The subsequent naturalization of the word in English is evident in the sermon literature of the next century.
- Given that 'cromulent' presumably means something like 'valid and current', using it to defend an 'obscure or invented word' is clearly an in-joke rather than naturalization of the word itself.
- The author establishes his distance from the naturalization of the word in the field of drama in Québec.
4The act of causing something to appear natural: trailers have contributed to the naturalization of a variety of social desires the naturalization of gender roles he continued the naturalization of the landscape, removing the old formal garden...- An effect of Brechtian alienation occurs, and the naturalization of genre is dismantled.
- The movie nakedly presents elements of that naturalization of roles and of the consequences it produces in a declining middle class.
- Is Roland Barthes correct that naturalization is the great, unspoken secret of bourgeois aesthetics?
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