nationalize

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To convert from private to governmental ownership and control.
• transitive verb To make national in character, scope, or notoriety.
• transitive verb To render distinctively national.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make national: as, to nationalize an institution.
• 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.
• 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.
• Also spoiled nationalise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb American Alternative spelling of nationalise.
• verb archaic 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make national in character or scope
• verb put under state control or ownership