VERB | change | nationalise, nationalize | make national in character or scope |
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change | nationalise, nationalize | put under state control or ownership |
Meaning | make national in character or scope. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonym | nationalize | |
Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
Nouns | nationalisation | the action of rendering national in character |
Meaning | put under state control or ownership. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | nationalize | |
Narrower | communize, communise | make into property owned by the state |
Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
Opposite | denationalize, denationalise | put under private control or ownership |
Spanish | nacionalizar | |
Catalan | nacionalitzar | |
Nouns | nationalisation | changing something from private to state ownership or control |
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