The Collaborative International Dictionary
nationalize \na"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Nationalizing.] [Cf. F. nationaliser.]
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: nationalize)
Usage examples of "nationalized".
It will have nationalized industry, scaled down incomes, set up a classless educational system.
The billionaire scions of industry were virtually unanimous in their outrage, while the unemployed folk flocked eagerly to apply for jobs in the nationalized companies.
Our biggest present problem is industry: we nationalized companies in key industries, but when we used them as our Employers of Last Resort, they became not more efficient but less efficient.
Thus the fungus industry was one of the vital ones, which was why the Tyrancy had nationalized one of the inefficient fungus companies.
Had I known the nature and consequence of their drive, I would have nationalized them all at the outset and shipped their executives to space.
The government of the People's State of Mexico has nationalized the San Sebastian Mines and the San Sebastian Railroad.
He had lost his property—it was said—when Chile, becoming a People's State, had nationalized all properties, except those belonging to citizens of backward, non-People's countries, such as Argentina.
Dinner had been about to be served, when he had heard what he had come to hear: Senor Gonzales had mentioned—the smoke of his cigar weaving over the half-dozen men who had drifted toward his armchair—that by agreement with the future People's State of Argentina, the properties of d'Anconia Copper would be nationalized by the People's State of Chile, in less than a month, on September 2.
It's a deal with a mission—a worthy, public-spirited mission—to manage the nationalized properties of the various People's States of South America, to teach their workers our modern techniques of production, to help the underprivileged who've never had a chance, to—" He broke off abruptly, though she had merely sat looking at him without shifting her glance.
It is very necessary that industry should be nationalized, but it is more urgently necessary that such monstrosities as butlers and "private incomes" should disappear forthwith.
And even if the face of England hardly seems to change, on the day that our main industries are formally nationalized the dominance of a single class will have been broken.
Since independence, these have been nationalized by the President, who expelled the whites, and given to his party hacks.
Three years before Shannon arrived, Gomez had been brusquely informed that the hotel was to be nationalized and he would be paid in local currency.
When the border between Indonesian Borneo and British North Borneo was finally drawn, the estates were on the Indonesian side and were promptly nationalized without compensation.