n. Act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. same as nationalization.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
See nationalization, etc.
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n. the action of forming or becoming a nation
n. changing something from private to state ownership or control
n. the action of rendering national in character
Word Usage
"Warning against what he described as the nationalisation of universities to address the problem, Wiechers said universities would have to find their own solutions."