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nationalize v. t. (past & past part. nationalized; pres. part. nationalizing)

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control; as, to nationalize the steel industry.

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Etymology of 'Nationalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nationalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... consolidated, and that our enemies be deprived of the plea that we are forever striving to carry into the world the torch of revolution. . . . To prevent the country from becoming the prey of foreigners, it is indispensable to nationalize the war; and this cannot be done unless the nation and its monarch bo united by closer bonds. It has become indispensable to give a satisfactory answer to our enemies' acensations of aggrandizement: there would be real magnanimity in a formal declaration ...

— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach

... execrated by his party associates, and abandoned by the Administration which had appointed him. Humiliating as was this local conspiracy to plant servitude in Kansas, a more aggressive political movement to nationalize slavery in all the Union was about to ...

— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay

... nationalized, or that secession had any legal justification. Finally the Republicans believed with the Abolitionists that slavery was wrong; while they believed with the Northern Democrats that the Union must be preserved; and it was their attempt to de-nationalize slavery as undemocratic and at the same time to affirm the indestructibility of the Union, which proved in the ...

— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

... lines would enable the Liberal (the Gentile) party to march in between. I argued in reply that we must divide at some time, and the sooner the better, since every year was increasing the Gentile population. They would never split as long as we remained solid. And if we were ever to be permitted to nationalize ourselves, it would not be until we had dissolved the party organizations whose very names were a proof of the continued rule of ...

— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

Words linked to "Nationalize" : communize, nationalise, denationalise, change, modify, communise, alter, nationalization, denationalize