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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To convert from private to governmental ownership and control: nationalize the steel industry.
  2. v. To make national in character, scope, or notoriety: "His high profile on such issues as abortion . . . has already begun to nationalize his image” ( Kenneth L. Woodward).
  3. v. To render distinctively national: characteristics and issues that have tended to nationalize American political life.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make national: as, to nationalize an institution.
  2. To give the character of a nation to; stamp with the political attachments which belong to citizens of the same nation: as, to nationalize a foreign colony.
  3. To make the property of the state or nation for national uses; abolish private ownership in, and vest in the nation for national use: as, to nationalize the land of a country.
  4. Also spoiled nationalise.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To convert a private industry into one controlled by the government.
  2. v. To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
  2. v. To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make national in character or scope
  2. v. put under state control or ownership

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