Valorization

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Valorization \Val`or*i*za"tion\, n. [Pg. valorizac[~a]o.]
     Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market
     value or price to a commodity by governmental interference,
     as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to
     producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; --
     used chiefly of such action by Brazil.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]