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nominalization
nominalization
English
Alternative forms
- nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)
Noun
nominalization (plural nominalizations) (American, Oxford British English)
- (linguistics) The use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb or adjective) as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
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Translations
use of a verb or an adjective as a noun
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