nationalisation

nationalisation

English

Alternative forms

• nationalization (American and Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From French nationalisation. Surface etymology is nationalise +‎ -ation.

Noun

nationalisation (countable and uncountable, plural nationalisations) (British spelling)

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

      the nationalisation of India

   2. The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
      • 2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 6:

        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."

   3. The act of becoming nationalistic.
      • 2006, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster, Hilary Owen, South American Independence, page 185:

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

   4. (politics) The process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope.

Synonyms

• (becoming nationalistic): patriotisation

Antonyms

• privatisation, privatization

Derived terms

• renationalisation

Related terms

• nationalise

Translations

making private assets public

Arabic: تَأْمِيم‎ m (taʾmīm) Armenian: ազգայնացում (hy) (azgaynacʿum) Azerbaijani: milliləşdirmə Belarusian: нацыяналіза́цыя f (nacyjanalizácyja) Bulgarian: национализа́ция (bg) f (nacionalizácija) Chinese: Mandarin: 國有化／国有化 (zh) (guóyǒuhuà) Czech: znárodnění n, nacionalizace f Danish: nationalisering (da) c Dutch: nationalisering (nl) f, nationalisatie (nl) f, naasting (nl) f Estonian: riigistamine Finnish: kansallistaminen (fi) French: nationalisation (fr) f Galician: nacionalización (gl) f Georgian: ნაციონალიზაცია (nacionalizacia) German: Nationalisierung (de) f, Verstaatlichung (de) f Greek: εθνικοποίηση (el) f (ethnikopoíisi) Hebrew: הַלְאָמָה‎ (he) f (hal'amah) Hindi: राष्ट्रीयकरण (hi) m (rāṣṭrīyakraṇ) Hungarian: államosítás (hu) Indonesian: nasionalisasi (id) Italian: nazionalizzazione (it) f Japanese: 国有化 (ja) (こくゆうか, kokuyūka) Kazakh: ұлттандыру (ūlttandyru) Korean: 국유화(國有化) (gugyuhwa) Kyrgyz: улутташтырма (uluttaştırma) Latvian: nacionalizācija f Lithuanian: nacionalizacija f Macedonian: национализација f (nacionalizacija) Norwegian: Bokmål: nasjonalisering m Persian: ملی‌سازی‎ (melli-sâzi) Polish: nacjonalizacja (pl) f Portuguese: nacionalização (pt) f Romanian: naționalizare (ro) f Russian: национализа́ция (ru) f (nacionalizácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: национализа́ција f Roman: nacionalizácija (sh) f Slovak: znárodnenie n, nacionalizácia f Slovene: nacionalizacija f Spanish: nacionalización (es) f Swedish: förstatligande (sv) n Turkish: kamulaştırma (tr), istimlak (tr) Ukrainian: националіза́ція f (nacyonalizácija) Vietnamese: quốc hữu hoá (vi)

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French

Etymology

nationaliser +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

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Noun

nationalisation f (plural nationalisations)

1. nationalization

Further reading

• “nationalisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.