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NATIONALIZE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put under state control or ownership

Example:

Mitterand nationalized the banks

Synonyms:

nationalise; nationalize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "nationalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nationalize"):

communise; communize (make into property owned by the state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

denationalize (put under private control or ownership)

Derivation:

nationalization (changing something from private to state ownership or control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make national in character or scope

Example:

His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press

Synonyms:

nationalise; nationalize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "nationalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

nationalization (the action of rendering national in character)

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