nationalisation

• nationalization (American and Oxford British spelling)

From French nationalisation. Surface etymology is nationalise +‎ -ation

nationalisation (countable and uncountable, plural nationalisations)

1. The act or process of nationalising:
   1. The act or process of making or becoming a nation.

      the nationalisation of India

   2. The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
   3. The act of becoming nationalistic.
      • 2006, Catherine Davies, ‎Claire Brewster, ‎Hilary Owen, South American Independence, page 185:

        […] study of the legacy of classical republican patriotism through to the nationalisation of patriotism […]

• (becoming nationalistic): patriotisation

• privatisation, privatization

• renationalisation

• nationalise

nationaliser +‎ -ation

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nationalisation f (plural nationalisations)

1. nationalization