-ization
suffix/aɪzeɪʃn/
/əzeɪʃn/
(British English also -isation)
in nouns- the process of becoming, making or making like
- privatization
- immunization
- Americanization
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- the fact of putting somebody/something or being put in a place
- hospitalization
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