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Nationalize   Listen
verb
nationalize  v. t.  (past & past part. nationalized; pres. part. nationalizing)  
1.
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.
2.
To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control; as, to nationalize the steel industry.





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... from the writings of the best authors, in the best age of English literature, and I can answer that its lessons were calculated to make impressions on the youthful mind, never to be forgotten. But the prevalent idea, of late years, seems to have been to nationalize school-books, so as to narrow their teachings, and thus to make our future fellow-citizens partisans instead of men. But literature and learning are confined to no age or nation; and meaning in no sense to say a word which could abate the ardor of manly patriotism in any ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous


Words linked to "Nationalize" :   nationalization, communize, communise, alter, denationalise, modify


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