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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of nationalize.

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Examples

  • The only way the banks are going to get nationalized, is if the bankers go on TV and beg to be nationalized. levitra Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » AEI Scholar John Makin Calls for Bank Nationalization 2009

  • It was born "nationalized" - and it worked beautifully until it was privatized.

    New Jersey Real Estate Report 2008

  • It was born "nationalized" -- and it worked beautifully until it was privatized.

    The Latest on Air America 2008

  • But under a nationalization scheme every bank that bought bad assets and isn’t nationalized is put at a severe disadvantage relative to the few banks that suddenly get the full backing of the Treasury balance sheet.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Bonanza 2009

  • It’s worth noting too that not everything that has been nationalized is in fact owned by the government.

    Matthew Yglesias » The N-Word 2009

  • Despite receiving $49 billion in emergency loans from the British government, Northern Rock bank now has been nationalized, which is a fancy way of saying that the government has taken over and stuck the people with the bill.

    CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2008 2008

  • In Russia, Putin with a stroke and pen, spent $720 billion, which is much bigger amount for Russia than $700 billion for America, and most of this money went to support his buddies, his cronies, who owned so-called nationalized banks and companies.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008 2008

  • In the so-called nationalized nation of Castro, the misery has been the same since 1959, the ruler is the same Fidel Castro, and the other thing that has not changed is the economic decay which followed 1959-160 nationalization.

    Andrew Racz: No More Munich: The Mongolian Version Of 1938 2008

  • But, I've got to tell you that the idea of nationalized health care terrifies me.

    Space Diary: The President of Free Space, Part 3: Hope or Fear 2008

  • Can it be characterized as nationalized health care?

    'A Lot To Learn' 2007

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