nationalisation

plural nationalisations · alternative British English Oxford US nationalization

1. The act or process of nationalising:
   1. countableuncountableThe act or process of making or becoming a nation.

      the nationalisation of India

   2. countableuncountableThe act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.

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      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.

      1958 January 28, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13

      However the Labour Party and rail unions regard the move as a step closer to full nationalisation. TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes said: "The ONS has candidly exposed the truth about our railways. They are now in public ownership. Grant Shapps must now take direct control of running them, rather than continue to line the pockets of privateers."

      2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 6

   3. countableuncountableThe act of becoming nationalistic.

      […] study of the legacy of classical republican patriotism through to the nationalisation of patriotism […]

      2006, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster, Hilary Owen, South American Independence, page 185

      Synonyms: patriotisation

   4. countableuncountablegovernmentThe process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope.