0 past simple and past participle of nationalize
1 (of a government) to take control of a business or industry:
The atmosphere cannot be nationalized, and countries collectively have not thus far succeeded in devising an international regime for regulating the emission of greenhouse gases.
It could do so because the organization at fault is something with which there is strong identification - perhaps if it is a nationalized industry.
Water policy making takes place in an institutional setting where all water resources are nationalized.
Postal systems are functions of state which remain everywhere nationalized.
In reality, each collective unit exercised a sort of use right to its local portion of the de facto nationalized farmland.
As exemplars of national - honor, dignity, and zeal, women served as the teachers of matriotic nationalism and nationalized masculinity.
The nationalized sector embraced only 20 per cent of the whole economy, but more importantly it made little direct contribution to exports.
The emperor could now continue promoting his blend of traditionalism and modernization with a revitalized, nationalized church under his complete control.
