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vapauttaminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • emancipation noun The act of freeing someone from slavery, legal control, or oppressive restriction.
  • exemption noun The state of being freed from a duty, rule, or payment that would otherwise apply.
  • release verb To set free or allow to leave, especially from captivity or confinement.

Senses

vapauttaminen is used for these senses in English:

  • emancipation The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
  • exemption An act of exempting.
  • release The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
  • release (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.

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