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to place under government or group ownership or control

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Synonyms for nationalize

put under state control or ownership

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make national in character or scope

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* Nationalizing electric and telecommunications companies may seem abstract to many students.
Hurricane Hugo: Venezuela's populist President, Hugo Chavez, has begun to back up his anti-American and socialist bluster with action. Is he turning into an old-style Latin American strongman?
Latin America's newest populist leader, President Evo Morales, had just issued a decree nationalizing Bolivia's petroleum."
State confiscation of Bolivia's energy industry
Republicans swept into office by painting Democrats as people who want the government to boss you around and destroy the things you love: Clinton and the old Congress, they could say, want to control your personal life by nationalizing health care and foisting weird ideas on your kids; they want to run your business, take away your land and your guns, and force your church to hire gay atheists as choir directors; if you protest too much or seem too odd, they'll send the FBI to shoot you down.
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