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nationalisation

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,118 of 15,258mostly written

Nationalisation is taking an industry into public ownership. The nationalisation of the railways, oppose nationalisation, a wave of nationalisation.

Britain nationalised coal, rail and steel after 1945 and privatised most of it again from the 1980s, so the same industries have gone both ways within living memory. This is the British spelling; American writing uses a z.

Definitions of nationalisation

  1. 1nounnationalisationTaking an industry into public ownership.C1

    “After the nationalisation of the oil industry, the government took over every refinery.”

nationalisation is a policy.

Also accepted in games: nationalization

Where it comes from

From nationalise, from nation, from Latin natio, a birth or race, from nasci, to be born.

  1. French

    nationalisation

  2. English, today

    nationalisation

From French nationalisation. by surface analysis, nationalise + -ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Politics & Society

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nationalisation in the wild

  • The company continued as an industrial conglomerate after the nationalisation of its bus interests; it was acquired by BTR plc in 1983.

    Tilling Group

  • Opposition parties campaigned heavily against bank nationalisation, framing the state election as a referendum on the policy.

    1947 Victorian state election

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.