“Liberalized” or “Liberalised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 3 prefer “liberalized” and 3 prefer “liberalised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	liberalized	liberalised	Preference
United States	92	8	“liberalized”
United Kingdom	23	77	“liberalised”
India	31	69	“liberalised”
Philippines	100	0	“liberalized”
Canada	100	0	“liberalized”
Australia	0	100	“liberalised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“liberalized”

…of Multimedia Group Limited, have liberalized communication in the country, where…
…however after 2014 the government liberalized the industry and began to…
…dissolved the marketing boards and liberalized cocoa marketing and trade.
…transform the country to a liberalized democratic federation, though he later…
Liberalized markets were not necessarily competitive…
…widely recognized as having broadened, liberalized, and modernized economic and statistical…
…City of West University place liberalized its development rules, allowing for…
The UK has also liberalized its electricity and gas systems,…
It liberalized the screening process that applicants…
…October 1918, the Soviet Union liberalized divorce and abortion laws, decriminalized…

“liberalised”

…privatised some state-controlled firms and liberalised markets.
…from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy.
…boom as stock markets became liberalised and State-owned industries became privatised.
…1990s, when immigration policies were liberalised to attract foreign professionals to…
…to accept amendments that considerably liberalised the legislation, though Disraeli refused…
…to a booming economy and liberalised FDI regime.
This Act liberalised aerodrome control services.
…mobile services in the newly liberalised telecom market that had once…
…Vatican Council of the 1960s liberalised the strictures of Catholic religious…
…Boris Yeltsin as he had liberalised trade with foreign countries, allowing…

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