1. To bring an asset, industry or enterprise into the ownership or control of the national state.
2. To extend something to national scope or give it a national character.
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Words that belong together
- nationalize an industry
- nationalize a company
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The proposal would nationalize the industry while leaving operational arrangements to later legislation.
The state nationalized the company after the existing owners could no longer meet its obligations.
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Word forms
- Base
- nationalize
- Past tense
- nationalized
- Past participle
- nationalized
- Present participle
- nationalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- nationalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are nationalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has nationalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been nationalizing
- Past
- nationalized
- Past continuous
- was/were nationalizing
- Past perfect
- had nationalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been nationalizing
- Future
- will nationalize
- Future continuous
- will be nationalizing
- Future perfect
- will have nationalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been nationalizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: nationalize; nationalizes; nationalized; nationalized; nationalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: nationalizes.
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