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nationalisation

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

noun nationalisations · nationalization

  1. countable, uncountable The act or process of making or becoming a nation. the nationalisation of India
  2. countable, uncountable The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership. Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from
  3. countable, uncountable The act of becoming nationalistic. […] study of the legacy of classical republican patriotism through to the nationalisation of patriotism […]

    Similar: patriotisation

  4. countable, uncountable The process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope.

Opposite: privatisation, privatization

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noun

Opposite: privatisation, privatization

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noun making private assets public

Españolnacionalización, estatización
한국어국유화 gugyuhwa
日本語国有化 kokuyūka
中文國有化 /国有化 guóyǒuhuà
हिन्दीराष्ट्रीयकरण rāṣṭrīyakraṇ
Kiswahiliutaifishaji
Portuguêsnacionalização
Françaisnationalisation
DeutschNationalisierung, Verstaatlichung
Italianonazionalizzazione
Ελληνικάεθνικοποίηση ethnikopoíisi
Românănaționalizare
Русскийнационализа́ция nacionalizácija
Tiếng Việtquốc hữu hoá
العربيةتَأْمِيم taʔmīm
עבריתהַלְאָמָה hal'amah

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@misc{nationalisation_2026,
  title = {nationalisation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nationalisation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}