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Nationalization   /nˌæʃənələzˈeɪʃən/  /nˌæʃnələzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Nationalization

noun
1.
The action of forming or becoming a nation.  Synonym: nationalisation.
2.
The action of rendering national in character.  Synonym: nationalisation.
3.
Changing something from private to state ownership or control.  Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation.






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"Nationalization" Quotes from Famous Books



... house-divided-against-itself proposition, soon fell back upon the defensive, where he was at a great disadvantage. He was forced to explain that he did not favor a war by the North upon the South for the extinction of slavery; nor a war by the South upon the North for the nationalization of slavery. "I only said what I expected would take place. I made a prediction only,—it may have been a foolish one, perhaps. I did not even say that I desired that slavery should be put in course of ultimate extinction. I do say so now, however."[689] He believed that slavery had ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson

... Bolshevist arms. The cache contained six 9-inch howitzers, two hundred thousand rifles and a million rounds of ammunition, and was skilfully concealed under the bole of a tree. Secret service men claim that this is part of a gigantic plot for the disorganization of traffic, the nationalization of cocktails and the wresting of Ireland from the strangulating grip of the Anglo-Saxon party. Two men have been arrested in Seattle in connection with the affair. On one of them was found Bolshevist literature and two hundred million francs in notes of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 30, 1919 • Various



Words linked to "Nationalization" :   social control, denationalization, nationalisation, nationalize, change, group action



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