Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To place under municipal ownership.
- transitive verb To make into a municipality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a municipality of; render municipal in character.
- To transfer from private to municipal ownership and management: applied especially to such transfer of water, gas, and electric-lighting works, street-railways, docks, and ferries, and less frequently to such transfer of bakeries, abattoirs, and markets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bring under municipal oversight or control.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To convert into a
municipality
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Examples
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Even if we "municipalize" all sorts of undertakings we shall not alter the essential facts, we shall only substitute for the shareholder the corporation stockholder.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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In 1940 NYC stepped in to fully “municipalize” the IRT and BMT and merge them with its own fully publicly financed and operated division, the IND.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure.
John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy John Farrell 2011
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Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure.
John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy John Farrell 2011
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Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure.
John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy John Farrell 2011
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There are constant attempts to municipalize the private system.
Water as a Private Good, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure.
John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy John Farrell 2011
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He, strange to relate, has come rather to admire Cowperwood and sees no advantage in a policy that can only tend to municipalize local lines.
The Titan 2004
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State to step in to nationalize or municipalize; the Individualist reformer who wishes to preserve competition where practicable, at the same time recognizes that it is impossible to do so where monopolies have become firmly rooted in certain industries, and he also at this point proposes nationalization, municipalization, or thoroughgoing governmental control.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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For instance, it has been clear to many from the time of Karl Marx that it would be necessary for capitalist society itself to nationalize or municipalize businesses that become monopolized, without any reference to Socialism or the Socialists.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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