To liberalize is to make a system, laws, or moral attitudes less strict. Governments liberalize trade or banking; a school or a church might liberalize its rules about dress or about who may lead. The thing that changes is usually a system, not a single person’s feelings. A system can also liberalize, as if it is loosening by itself. Spelling: learner books and American English like -ize; British papers often write liberalise. Same verb. Though actually people sometimes use it as a compliment or an attack — “they liberalized the law” may sound like progress to one listener and like a loss of order to another.

使自由化、放寬（法規、市場、規範）