NATIONALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nationalize mean? 

• NATIONALIZE (verb)
  The verb NATIONALIZE has 2 senses:

1. put under state control or ownership

2. make national in character or scope

  Familiarity information: NATIONALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they nationalize    ... he / she / it nationalizes   
Past simple: nationalized   
Past participle: nationalized   
-ing form: nationalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put under state control or ownership

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

nationalise; nationalize

Context example:

Mitterand nationalized the banks

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

nationalise; nationalize

Context example:

His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press

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)