Dictionary

passportize en · VERB

Etymology

From passport + -ize.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To induce (residents of another country) to take up the citizenship of and possess a passport from one's own country (chiefly Russia).
   • Moldova's unconditional jus soli was unintentional but the government was able to capitalize on it and passportize the majority of Transnistria's residents. 2019, Maxim Tabachnik, Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, page 104:
   • In fact, whenever the Soviet Union absorbed new territory, one of the first steps was to “passportize” the local population. 2015, Mark Harrison, One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State:

Forms

Deriveds

passportization

Relateds

borderize