Usually means: Transfer private sector assets to government.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nationalize:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nationalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nationalize: Merriam-Webster
  3. nationalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nationalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nationalize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nationalize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nationalize, nationalize: Wordnik
  8. nationalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nationalize: Wiktionary
  10. nationalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nationalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nationalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Nationalize, nationalize: Dictionary.com
  14. nationalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nationalize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nationalize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nationalize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nationalize: Rhymezone
  19. nationalize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nationalize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nationalize: FreeDictionary.org
  22. nationalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nationalize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nationalize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. nationalize: Legal dictionary
  4. nationalize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nationalize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nationalize: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nationalize: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (rare) To make into, or to become, a nation.
verb:  To bring a private company, or an industry comprising such companies, under the control of a specific government.
verb:  To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
verb:  (politics) To change from having local and regional variation to being national in character and scope.
verb:  (archaic) 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.

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