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. (present participle of nationalize English)
Usage examples of "nationalizing".
Simply in the interest of efficiency the Nazis found themselves expropriating, nationalizing, destroying the very people they had set out to save.
It should state that Trafficante advises no Mob retaliation against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.
The note’s supposed to say that you recommend no reprisals against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.
He also secured a note from Santo Trafficante personally requesting that no Mafia reprisals be launched against Castro for nationalizing the Havana casinos.
But if you are nationalizing the bank, wouldn't it make more sense to put questions, to your state treasurer, or whatever you decide to call him?
But if you are nationalizing the bank, wouldn’t it make more sense to put questions, to your state treasurer, or whatever you decide to call him?
Bit by bit, with the patience of Job and the skill of Grath, they had begun pushing Man back, forcing him into planetary alcoves, denying him access to a world here, a system there, nationalizing a factory on this world, destroying a laboratory or college on that world.
Henry had set up a hot line for the state governors, had resisted nationalizing the Guard (which would only serve to encourage those elements in the nation that were given to panic), had talked with the heads of state of two dozen nations, had authorized full U.