domestication

  1. Noun.  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
  2. Noun.  The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

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