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- participlepastsimple past and past participle of nationalise
It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 371 more example
With each reduction in the number of railways, there must come, eventually, a decline in interest, if only through reduction in variety; and when it comes to one nationalised railway only we have reached the irreducible minimum.
1948 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
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nationalised. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nationalised
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