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domesticate

verb/dəˈmestɪkeɪt/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

To make a foreign award or judgment enforceable within one's own jurisdiction.

Counsel moved to domesticate the New York award so the assets here could be seized.

Similar: recognise, enforce, register

Topic: Arbitration in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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