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Definition of Nationalisation

1. Noun. The action of forming or becoming a nation.

2. Noun. The action of rendering national in character.

3. Noun. Changing something from private to state ownership or control.

Definition of Nationalisation

1. Noun. Act of taking formerly private assets into public or (state ownership). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nationalisation

national leader national library of medicine national monument national park national parks national practitioner data bank national revival national revivals national security national service

national socialism national socialist national trading policy national treasure national treasures nationalisation (current term) nationalisations nationalise nationalised nationaliser

nationalisers nationalises nationalising nationalism nationalisms nationalist nationalist leader nationalistic nationalistically nationalists

Literary usage of Nationalisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1883)
"THE "WHY" AND THE "HOW" OF LAND nationalisation. IN the July issue of this magazine an article appeared on " State Socialism and the nationalisation of the ..."

2. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"APPENDIX B nationalisation OF THE COAL-MINES The reader may wish for a brief ... Already we have pointed out that nationalisation might be a good thing in ..."

3. Economic Liberty by Harold Cox (1920)
"CHAPTER XII nationalisation i THE present demand for the nationalisation of many of our most important industries is a political paradox. ..."

4. The Prevention and Control of Monopolies by William Jethro Brown (1915)
"1 The fact that public competition, if effective, is apt to lead to nationalisation, will be regarded with approval or disapproval ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"A number of schemes have been proposed for what is vaguely called ' nationalisation of the land.' These all start from the principle which has been seen to ..."

6. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1888)
"CHAPTER XL STATE SOCIALISM AND THE nationalisation OF THE LAND. ... As this plan of nationalisation may be regarded as the most important development of ..."

7. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1884)
"OF BELLIGERENT nationalisation. That nationalisation, for purely belligerent purposes, should leare domicile unaffected, follows as a logical consequence ..."

8. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"On October 10 Talleyrand proposed the nationalisation of Church property. The income of the Church was estimated at 150 millions a ..."

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