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nationalization

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of rendering national in character instead of local.
  • noun The act of making national as regards possession, use, and control; especially, as advocated by many socialists, the abolition of private property, as in lands, railways, etc., and the vesting of it in the nation for national use: as, the nationalisation of land.
  • noun Also spelled nationalisation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun American Alternative spelling of nationalisation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the action of rendering national in character
  • noun changing something from private to state ownership or control
  • noun the action of forming or becoming a nation

Etymologies

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national +‎ -ization

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