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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nationalise
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nationalised industry
▪ a nationalised industry
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they're going to nationalise the health service.
▪ But he didn't want to nationalise them, he just wanted them - for himself.
▪ However, the authorities can provide the debt relief badly needed to stabilise the economy by nationalising the banks.
▪ It does, however, put the onus of proof, case by case, on those who would nationalise industry.
▪ Outrage at what they saw as the pillaging of their resources led many Latin countries to nationalise oil firms.
▪ Subsidise it; bail it out; or nationalise it, so that it was protected by the bottomless purse of the taxpayer.
▪ The government should nationalise all of its banks.
▪ They also wished to nationalise certain industries.
Wiktionary
nationalise

vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling lang=en nationalize)

WordNet
nationalise
  1. v. make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press" [syn: nationalize]

  2. put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" [syn: nationalize] [ant: denationalize, denationalize]

Usage examples of "nationalise".

If the latter were to continue in power, it would inevitably seek to restore capitalist order in those countries where a nationalised planned economy existed.