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nationalize

na´tion`al`ize
v. t.1.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.
[imp. & p. p. Nationalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Nationalizing .]
2.To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control; as, to nationalize the steel industry.
Verb1.nationalize - put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks"
Synonyms: nationalise
Antonyms:
denationalise, denationalize - put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized"
2.nationalize - make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press"
Synonyms: nationalise
annex, attach, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, confiscate, democratize, distrain, expropriate, garnish, impound, impress, levy, politicize, press, replevin, replevy, republicanize, sequester, sequestrate, socialize

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