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Nationalisation

noun
1.
The action of forming or becoming a nation.  Synonym: nationalization.
2.
The action of rendering national in character.  Synonym: nationalization.
3.
Changing something from private to state ownership or control.  Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization.






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"Nationalisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the good of educating these people? Stuffing their heads with a lot of useless nonsense. And then talking about land nationalisation. The two don't go together, sir. If you educate a man he's not going to go and sit down on a bare field and look for worms. . . ." He paused in his peroration as he caught sight ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

... war. America is the one place in the world where this process, healthy or unhealthy, possible or impossible, is going on. And the process, as I have pointed out, is not internationalisation. It would be truer to say it is the nationalisation of the internationalised. It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles. This is what at once illuminates and softens the moral regulations which we may really think faddist or fanatical. They are abnormal; but in one sense this experiment of a home for ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton



Words linked to "Nationalisation" :   change, communization, social control, denationalization, nationalization, group action, nationalise



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