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