BharatNotes Unification
nounUsage in a UPSC answer
The unification of the country's fragmented indirect-tax regime under the Goods and Services Tax was envisaged not merely as a fiscal reform but as a project of economic integration, knitting disparate state markets into a single, seamless national economy.
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Word Family
unify (v), unified (adj), unifier (n), unifiable (adj), reunification (n)
Root
Late Latin ūnificāre = to make one; ūni- = one + facere = to make; -ation = process noun
Etymology
From Late Latin ūnificāre ("to make one") — Latin ūni- ("one") + facere ("to make") — with the suffix "-ation"; entered English in the 1840s, with wide use during the Italian and German unification movements.
Memory Hook
"Uni-" means one (as in unite, universe) + "-fication" means making — so unification is the making of many into one.
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