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    NATIONALIZE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they nationalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it nationalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: nationalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: nationalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: nationalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Put under state control or ownershipplay

    Example:

    Mitterand nationalized the banks

    Synonyms:

    nationalise; nationalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    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 scopeplay

    Example:

    His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press

    Synonyms:

    nationalise; nationalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    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)

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