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NATIONALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nationalize mean?
• NATIONALIZE (verb)
The verb NATIONALIZE has 2 senses:
1. put under state control or ownership
2. make national in character or scope
Familiarity information: NATIONALIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: nationalized
Past participle: nationalized
-ing form: nationalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put under state control or ownership
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
nationalise; nationalize
Context example:
Mitterand nationalized the banks
Hypernyms (to "nationalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nationalize"):
communise; communize (make into property owned by the state)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
denationalize (put under private control or ownership)
Derivation:
nationalization (changing something from private to state ownership or control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make national in character or scope
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
nationalise; nationalize
Context example:
His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press
Hypernyms (to "nationalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
nationalization (the action of rendering national in character)
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