nationalize

See also: nacionalize

English

Alternative forms

• nationalise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From French nationaliser. By surface analysis, national +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæʃənəlaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

nationalize (third-person singular simple present nationalizes, present participle nationalizing, simple past and past participle nationalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (rare) To make into, or to become, a nation.
   • 1910, History for Ready Reference from the Best Historians, page 316:

     Probably no Hindu who could make intelligent use of political freedom ever dreams of the present possibility of a nationalized India, […]

2. To bring a private company, or an industry comprising such companies, under the control of a specific government.

   Synonym: deprivatize

   Antonyms: denationalize, privatize

   Near-synonym: socialize

   The government plans to nationalize the energy industry.

3. To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
4. (politics) To change from having local and regional variation to being national in character and scope.
   • 2018, Daniel J. Hopkins, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, The University of Chicago Press:
5. (archaic) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

Derived terms

• nationalisation

Translations

to make a private asset public

• Arabic: أَمَّمَ (ʔammama)
• Armenian: ազգայնացնել (hy) (azgaynacʻnel), պետականացնել (hy) (petakanacʻnel)
• Belarusian: нацыяналізава́ць impf or pf (nacyjanalizavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: национализи́рам (bg) impf or pf (nacionalizíram)
• Burmese: ပြည်သူပိုင်သိမ်း (pranysupuingsim:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國有化／国有化 (zh) (guóyǒuhuà)

• Czech: znárodňovat impf, znárodnit pf
• Esperanto: ŝtatigi
• Finnish: kansallistaa (fi)
• French: nationaliser (fr)
• German: nationalisieren (de), verstaatlichen (de)
• Greek: κρατικοποιώ (el) (kratikopoió)
• Hungarian: államosít (hu)
• Ido: nacionaligar (io)
• Japanese: 国有化する (ja) (こくゆうかする, kokuyūka suru)
• Korean: 국유화하다 (gugyuhwahada)
• Kyrgyz: улутташтыруу (ky) (uluttaştıruu)
• Macedonian: национализи́ра impf or pf (nacionalizíra)
• Malay: milik negarakan, nasionalisasikan
• Polish: nacjonalizować (pl) impf, znacjonalizować pf, unaradawiać impf, unarodowić pf, upaństwawiać (pl) impf, upaństwowić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: estatizar (pt), nacionalizar (pt)
• Russian: национализи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (nacionalizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: znárodňovať impf, znárodniť pf
• Swedish: förstatliga (sv), nationalisera (sv), socialisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: націоналізува́ти impf or pf (nacionalizuváty), націоналізо́вувати impf (nacionalizóvuvaty)
• Walloon: nåcionålijhî (wa)