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Nationalisation

noun

The action of forming or becoming a nation. Synonym: nationalization.

The action of rendering national in character. Synonym: nationalization.

Changing something from private to state ownership or control. Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization.

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"Nationalisation" Quotes from Famous Books

... reached a curious complication and confusion, not easy to parallel in human history. It is not a question of controversies, but rather of cross-purposes. As I went by Charing Cross my eye caught a poster about Labour politics, with something about the threat of Direct Action and a demand for Nationalisation. And quite apart from the merits of the case, it struck me that after all the direct action is very indirect, and the thing demanded is many steps away from the thing desired. It is all part of ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

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... were not sufficiently favourable to the tenants, sneering at the proposal for a bonus, hinting that no Government would find money for this purpose. Mr Davitt, who was an earnest disciple of Henry George's ideal of Land Nationalisation, naturally enough found nothing to like in the proposals for land purchase, which would set up a race of peasant-proprietors who would never consent to surrender their ownership to the State and would consequently make the application of the principles ...

— Ireland Since Parnell • Daniel Desmond Sheehan

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Words linked to "Nationalisation" : group action, communisation, communization, nationalise, social control, denationalization, nationalization, change