hợp thức hóa
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Definition
- Verb:
- To regularize: To make something official, valid, or compliant with established rules, laws, or formal procedures. It involves bringing an existing situation, document, or status into proper legal or formal order.
- To legalize: To give legal authority or sanction to something, often implying a process of formal recognition by an official body.
- To formalize: To make an arrangement, agreement, or situation formal and officially recognized.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Chính phủ đang tìm cách hợp thức hóa tình trạng cư trú của những người nhập cư. (The government is seeking to regularize the residency status of the immigrants.)
- Hai công ty cần hợp thức hóa thỏa thuận bằng một bản hợp đồng. (The two companies need to formalize the agreement with a contract.)
- Việc hợp thức hóa giấy tờ đất đai mất nhiều thời gian. (Legalizing land papers takes a lot of time.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in bureaucratic, legal, and administrative contexts. It implies a transition from an informal, unofficial, or irregular state to a formally accepted one.
- "hợp thức hóa hồ sơ": to regularize/legalize a dossier.
- Anh ấy phải hợp thức hóa hồ sơ xin visa. (He had to regularize his visa application dossier.)
Variants and Related Words
Hợp thức (adj): legitimate, legal, valid.
- Giấy tờ hợp thức (legitimate papers)
Hợp pháp hóa (v): to legalize (often with a stronger emphasis on making something lawful, sometimes used interchangeably with "hợp thức hóa").
- hợp pháp hóa hôn nhân (to legalize a marriage)
Synonyms
- Regularize: To make something conform to rules or standards.
- Legalize: To make something permissible by law.
- Formalize: To give a definite form or official status to.
- Validate: To make legally valid or official.
Related Idioms
- While not a direct idiom, the concept is central to phrases like:
- Mang ra ánh sáng và hợp thức hóa: To bring to light and formalize (a process or arrangement).