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nationalise en · VERB

Etymology

From French nationaliser, equivalent to national + -ise.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
   alt of nationalize
   • 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. 1870, The Broadway, page 33:
   • 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 37:
   • 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. 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 513:
   • 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. 2017 November 12, Jie Jenny Zou, “How big oil is tightening its grip on Donald Trump's White House”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Deriveds

denationalise · nationalisation · renationalise