0 the process of a government taking control of a business or industry: --
The administration is considering a partial nationalization of some banks.
Nationalization of agriculture is on the government's agenda.
1 a process in which a government takes control of an industry or company and becomes its owner: --
This scheme became in effect a national hospital service and undoubtedly had much to do with the widespread support for the nationalization of voluntary hospitals after the war.
First, the idea of nationalization as a key underpinning for a ' planned economy ' was soon undermined by the problems encountered in formulating let alone pursuing such planning.
We demanded, seeing the shortage of donations, the nationalization of bodies.
The nineteenth century was the age of nationalism and also of what might be called the "nationalization of knowledge".
As in the case of democratization and bureaucratization, we find conflicting trends: trends towards nationalization, globalization and localization.
For example, someone who was highly in favour of nationalization would be expected to score a '4' ('very positive') on that item.
In several cases, forced government nationalization has led to mass arrests and rioting.
As this suggests, the central state underwrote and directly contributed to the growing 'nationalization' of middle-class identity in the first half of the twentieth century.
