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NATIONALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Changing something from private to state ownership or control
Synonyms:
communisation; communization; nationalisation; nationalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("nationalization" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Antonym:
denationalization (changing something from state to private ownership or control)
Derivation:
nationalize (put under state control or ownership)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The action of rendering national in character
Synonyms:
nationalisation; nationalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("nationalization" is a kind of...):
change (the action of changing something)
Derivation:
nationalize (make national in character or scope)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The action of forming or becoming a nation
Synonyms:
nationalisation; nationalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("nationalization" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
