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Definition of Nationalise

1. Verb. Make national in character or scope. "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press"

2. Verb. Put under state control or ownership. "Mitterand nationalized the banks"

Definition of Nationalise

1. Adjective. Describes something that has undergone the process of nationalisation ¹

2. Verb. To bring a private company under the control of a specific government. ¹

3. Verb. To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nationalise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nationalise

national monument national park national parks national practitioner data bank national revival national revivals national security national service national socialism national socialist

national trading policy national treasure national treasures nationalisation nationalisations nationalise nationalised nationaliser nationalisers nationalises

nationalising nationalism nationalisms nationalist nationalist leader nationalistic nationalistically nationalists nationalities nationality

Literary usage of Nationalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Israel Among the Nations: A Study of the Jews and Antisemitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Frances Hellman (1895)
"L The almost Universal Tendency of the Jews to Nationalise themselves—In which States is their Assimilation most Complete ?—The Necessity of Distinguishing, ..."

2. The Coming Revolution in Great Britain by Gerald Gould (1920)
"But one central injustice would in either case remain : if we nationalise industries one by one, we must nationalise one before the others, and thus set up ..."

3. Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold by John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"That is to say, it may nationalise or socialise one industry after another, as it has socialised one civic monopoly after another; and it may nationalise ..."

4. Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold by John Mackinnon Robertson (1891)
"Thai is to say, it may nationalise or socialise one industry after another, ;.- it has socialised one civic monopoly after another; and it uu; nationalise ..."

5. Capital (1888)
"Speaking at the function, the Defence Minister, Mr. Jagjivan Ram, made it clear that the Government had no intention to nationalise the distributive trade ..."

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