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Nationalisation

noun

Noun

1
The act or process of nationalising:; The act or process of making or becoming a nation. countable, uncountable
"the nationalisation of India"
2
changing something from private to state ownership or control wordnet
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The act or process of nationalising:; The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership. countable, uncountable
"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 the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation."
4
the action of rendering national in character wordnet
5
The act or process of nationalising:; The act of becoming nationalistic. countable, uncountable
"[…] study of the legacy of classical republican patriotism through to the nationalisation of patriotism […]"

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the action of forming or becoming a nation wordnet
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The act or process of nationalising:; The process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope. countable, uncountable

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

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