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  • verb To nationalize again, after a previous privatization

Etymologies

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re- +‎ nationalize

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Examples

  • "The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution", and identified three global forces threatening to "renationalize" the open internet: government, big IT, and network owners (telcos, cable operators, et al) who want the power to tier traffic, control content, and wall gardens for safety, fun, and profit.

    Yahoo! Developer Network Blog 2010

  • The reckless privatization program and the production-sharing oil agreements should be eliminated, and Iraq should be allowed to renationalize key economic sectors like water and electricity and oil – which is the normal situation in the Middle East, after all.

    Wonk Room » Bringing Iraq Online 2009

  • After winning lucrative deals in the 1990s, Western oil companies met difficulties in Russia after Vladimir Putin, formerly president and now prime minister, started to renationalize Russia's energy sector early in the past decade.

    Conoco to Pull Back From Russian Partnership Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010

  • After winning lucrative deals in the 1990s, Western oil companies met difficulties in Russia after Vladimir Putin, formerly president and now prime minister, started to renationalize Russia's energy sector early in the past decade.

    Conoco to Pull Back From Russian Partnership Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010

  • It also turned into a move to renationalize Yukos.

    Russia Sentences Tycoon to 6 More Years Gregory L. White 2010

  • After winning lucrative deals in the 1990s, Western oil companies met difficulties in Russia after Vladimir Putin, formerly president and now prime minister, started to renationalize Russia's energy sector early in the past decade.

    Conoco to Pull Back From Russian Partnership Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010

  • Over the past nine years, Helen Clark's left-wing Labour government rode the global economic expansion and used the revenue surge to expand government welfare programs, renationalize industries, and embrace causes like global warming.

    You Can't Spend Your Way Out of the Crisis 2009

  • Over the past nine years, Helen Clark's left-wing Labour government rode the global economic expansion and used the revenue surge to expand government welfare programs, renationalize industries, and embrace causes like global warming.

    You Can't Spend Your Way Out of the Crisis 2009

  • Government officials say they have no plans to renationalize large chunks of the economy.

    Kremlin Tightens Hold on Norilsk 2008

  • The left wing of his party is calling for him to rediscover "Old Labour" principles and renationalize the rails and raise the minimum wage.

    Labour Gets Old 2008

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