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Back-formation from ratification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish ratificar and Italian ratificare.

verb ratificates · ratificating · ratificated

nonstandard, transitive To ratify. To achieve this political unification each state has to delegate some of their rights to the EC [European Community] in Bruessel^([sic]) (i.e. making specific law etc.). And thats^([sic]) why the brits and danes had such problems in their parliament to ratificate the maastricht treaty. But as one ca

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@misc{ratificate_2026,
  title = {ratificate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ratificate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}