officialize


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Verb1.officialize - make official; "We officialized our relationship"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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The publication of the law in the Official Gazette by Parliament would have been the second opportunity to officialize the Albanian language, but then the President of the Assembly said that this was not his job.
(14) In Brazil, the first movement in this direction took place through national satisfaction survey, which involved education services, social security and health in a sample of 8 000 households and its greatest achievement, to the detriment of specific results in terms of user satisfaction, was to officialize the evaluation of the user's perception of the quality of received service.
Paris is close to entering an intense Olympic battle, the French capital that lost out to London for the 2012 Games has only to officialize its candidature after backing from the Paris City Hall in April.
(67) To officialize the standardization of investment protection internationally, there was a shift in the nature of early BITs, which contained disparate provisions, to later treaties, which "not only contained uniform statements of standards but also had some definite aims" regarding the protection of foreign investment.
The next step is to "officialize" the situation by arranging for the two families to meet to assess whether the boy's and girl's ages are compatible according to the locally used horoscope.
Likewise, there is no way to officialize certain religion in construing Pancasila, because such thing will result in denial of the plurality of religions, cultures, and ethnic groups which is the essence of multiculturalism in Indonesia.