nationalization (n.)

  1. the action of forming or becoming a nation

    [ Syn: nationalisation ]

  2. the action of rendering national in character

    [ Syn: nationalisation ]

  3. changing something from private to state ownership or control

    [ Syn: nationalisation , communization , communisation ]

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