ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Nationalise

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Nationalise is a verb meaning Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.

Meaning

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.

Example Sentences

It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.
Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission.
The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. President Woodrow Wilson appoints multiple oil executives to war-effort committees and nationalises the railways.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nationalize, nationalising, nationalised, nationalisation, privatise, nationalizing.

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