Meanings
plural nostrifications
- countableuncountableThe process or act of granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university.
- countableuncountableThe expropriation of foreign-owned capital to domestic persons.
It was such acts of expropriating foreign-owned property—or what was called nostrification in postimperial Central Europe when the property was given to private nationals—that Hayek complained of in The Road to Serfdom.
2018, Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, section 137
Origin
- Latinnostr-“our, ours”
- Englishnostrification
First attested in 1885 as Latin nostr- (“our, ours”) + -ification.
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Czech nostrifikace
- nostrifikacegranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
German Nostrifizierung, Nostrifikation
- Nostrifizierunggranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
- Nostrifikationgranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Polish nostryfikacja
- nostryfikacjagranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Portuguese convalidação, reconhecimento de diploma
- convalidaçãogranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
- reconhecimento de diplomagranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Russian нострифика́ция
- нострифика́ция (nostrifikácija)granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Spanish convalidación
- convalidacióngranting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Ukrainian нострифіка́ція
- нострифіка́ція (nostryfikácija)granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university
Cite this entry
nostrification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nostrification
“nostrification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nostrification. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nostrification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nostrification.
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