formalize

1. V-T If you formalize a plan, idea, arrangement, or system, you make it formal and official. 使正式化; 使官方化

A recent treaty signed by Russia, Canada and Japan formalized an agreement to work together to stop the pirates. 最近由俄羅斯、加拿大和日本簽署的一項條約使共同阻止盜版者的協(xié)議正式生效。