regularize

1. V-T If someone regularizes a situation or system, they make it officially acceptable or put it under a system of rules. 使...合法化; 使...規(guī)范化[正式]

Cohabiting couples would regularize their unions, they said. 他們說(shuō)，同居情侶會(huì)讓他們的結(jié)合合法化。