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nationalisation

noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The act or process of nationalising:

The act or process of making or becoming a nation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • the nationalisation of India

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The act or process of nationalising:

The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The act or process of nationalising:

The act of becoming nationalistic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The act or process of nationalising:

The process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

changing something from private to state ownership or control

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nationalization, communization, communisation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: social control

6

noun

Meaning 6

the action of rendering national in character

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nationalization

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: change

7

noun

Meaning 7

the action of forming or becoming a nation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nationalization

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: group action

History

Etymology

From French nationalisation. By surface analysis, nationalise + -ation.

Across languages

Translations

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: nasionalisering — making private assets public
  • Albanian: nacionalizim — making private assets public
  • Arabic: تَأْمِيم (taʔmīm) — making private assets public
  • Armenian: ազգայնացում (azgaynacʻum) — making private assets public
  • Azerbaijani: milliləşdirmə — making private assets public
  • Belarusian: нацыяналіза́цыя (nacyjanalizácyja) — making private assets public
  • Bulgarian: национализа́ция (nacionalizácija) — making private assets public
  • Catalan: estatització — making private assets public
  • Catalan: nacionalització — making private assets public
  • Chinese Mandarin: 國有化 /国有化 (guóyǒuhuà) — making private assets public
  • Czech: znárodnění — making private assets public
  • Czech: nacionalizace — making private assets public
  • Danish: nationalisering — making private assets public
  • Dutch: nationalisering — making private assets public
  • Dutch: nationalisatie — making private assets public
  • Dutch: naasting — making private assets public
  • Esperanto: ŝtatigo — making private assets public
  • Estonian: riigistamine — making private assets public
  • Finnish: kansallistaminen — making private assets public
  • French: nationalisation — making private assets public
  • Galician: nacionalización — making private assets public
  • Galician: estatalización — making private assets public
  • Georgian: ნაციონალიზაცია (nacionalizacia) — making private assets public
  • German: Nationalisierung — making private assets public
  • German: Verstaatlichung — making private assets public
  • Greek: εθνικοποίηση (ethnikopoíisi) — making private assets public
  • Hebrew: הַלְאָמָה (hal'amah) — making private assets public
  • Hindi: राष्ट्रीयकरण (rāṣṭrīyakraṇ) — making private assets public
  • Hungarian: államosítás — making private assets public
  • Icelandic: þjóðnýting — making private assets public
  • Indonesian: nasionalisasi — making private assets public
  • Italian: nazionalizzazione — making private assets public
  • Japanese: 国有化 (kokuyūka) — making private assets public
  • Kazakh: ұлттандыру (ūlttandyru) — making private assets public
  • Kazakh: мемлекеттендіру (memlekettendıru) — making private assets public
  • Korean: 국유화 (gugyuhwa) — making private assets public
  • Kyrgyz: улутташтырма (uluttaştırma) — making private assets public
  • Latvian: nacionalizācija — making private assets public
  • Lithuanian: nacionalizacija — making private assets public
  • Macedonian: национализација (nacionalizacija) — making private assets public
  • Malay: pemiliknegaraan — making private assets public
  • Malay: nasionalisasi — making private assets public
  • Norwegian Bokmål: nasjonalisering — making private assets public
  • Occitan: nacionalizacion — making private assets public
  • Persian: مِلّیسازی (melli-sâzi) — making private assets public
  • Polish: nacjonalizacja — making private assets public
  • Portuguese: nacionalização — making private assets public
  • Romanian: naționalizare — making private assets public
  • Russian: национализа́ция (nacionalizácija) — making private assets public
  • Serbo-Croatian: национализа́ција — making private assets public
  • Serbo-Croatian: nacionalizácija — making private assets public
  • Slovak: znárodnenie — making private assets public
  • Slovak: nacionalizácia — making private assets public
  • Slovene: nacionalizacija — making private assets public
  • Spanish: nacionalización — making private assets public
  • Spanish: estatización — making private assets public
  • Swahili: utaifishaji — making private assets public
  • Swedish: förstatligande — making private assets public
  • Tagalog: nasyonalisasyon — making private assets public
  • Tajik: милликунонӣ (millikunoni) — making private assets public
  • Tajik: миллисозӣ (millisozi) — making private assets public
  • Turkish: kamulaştırma — making private assets public
  • Turkish: istimlak — making private assets public
  • Ukrainian: націоналіза́ція (nacionalizácija) — making private assets public
  • Urdu: قَومیانا (qaumyānā) — making private assets public
  • Uyghur: دۆلەتلەشتۈرۈش (döletleshtürüsh) — making private assets public
  • Uyghur: دۆلەت ئىگىلىكىگە ئۆتكۈزۈش (dölet igilikige ötküzüsh) — making private assets public
  • Uzbek: natsionalizatsiya — making private assets public
  • Uzbek: milliylashtirish — making private assets public
  • Vietnamese: quốc hữu hoá — making private assets public
  • Welsh: gwladoliad — making private assets public
  • Welsh: cenedlaetholiad — making private assets public
  • Welsh: nasiynoliad — making private assets public
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