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nationalize Definition In English

0 (of a government) to take control of a business or industry:
- The Mexican president nationalized the railways in 1939.
1 to bring business, industry, or land under the control or ownership of the government:
- The program’s huge cost makes it unlikely that Congress will try to nationalize health care in the near future.
2 if a government nationalizes an industry or a company, it takes control of it and becomes the owner:
- After 47 years as a nationalized industry, the government broke Britain's railway system into around 80 private companies.
- Mexico nationalized its oil industry in 1938 after decades of control by foreign oil companies.

Between 1960 and 1990, teachers' unions pressurized the state government to nationalize schools (a trend that has now been reversed, especially in the secondary sector).
As state structures were nationalized and electoral politics evolved, popular agitation also underwent profound changes.
As was mentioned earlier, private management is not applied to natural forests, because they were nationalized.
Governments have nationalized forests and other natural resources and established protected areas in order to protect wildlife habitats from human utilization.
In this instance, nationalizing war refers to the extensive use of military and political violence to reduce a multi-national state to a nation-state.
Privately owned natural forests do not exist, because all of them were nationalized.
In other words, the language had to be discursively nationalized before it could be officially inserted into the mundane everyday world of the nation.
Her father's business had been nationalized in the first wave of communist reforms, plunging the family into dire poverty.