naturalise

[US]/'nætʃərəlaiz/
[UK]/ˈnætʃərəˌlaɪz/
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Translation

vt. grant citizenship to; cause to be admitted; cause to become naturalized
vi. become a citizen; become naturalized

Phrases & Collocations

naturalise citizenship

Real-world Examples

Mr Orban's government has eased citizenship rules in an attempt to naturalise and enfranchise 1m of them.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Her thinly camouflaged goal was not to improve immigrants' Danish, but to naturalise fewer of them.

Source: The Economist - Arts

We see these real fears that genetic information will be used to naturalise hierarchy.

Source: The Economist (Video Edition)

Thus, also, it is that continental productions have everywhere become so largely naturalised on islands.

Source: On the Origin of Species

We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature.

Source: On the Origin of Species

A naturalised American who was, in his words, " made in India" , and a private-sector businessman, Mr Banga represents a break from tradition.

Source: Economist Finance and economics

Born in tsarist Estonia to Baltic Germans, he was naturalised in Finland and had to negotiate the complex inter-war contests over that country's future.

Source: The Economist Culture

It might also, perhaps, have been expected that naturalised plants would have belonged to a few groups more especially adapted to certain stations in their new homes.

Source: On the Origin of Species

To give a single instance: in the last edition of Dr. Asa Gray's " Manual of the Flora of the Northern United States, " 260 naturalised plants are enumerated, and these belong to 162 genera.

Source: On the Origin of Species

We do not know that even the most prolific area is fully stocked with specific forms: at the Cape of Good Hope and in Australia, which support such an astonishing number of species, many European plants have become naturalised.

Source: On the Origin of Species

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