nationalizev.
/ˈnaʃn̩əlʌɪz/, /ˈnaʃn̩l̩ʌɪz/, /ˈnaʃənl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈnaʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlaɪz/ 1. † b. transitive. To make into or like a separate nation. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To give a national character to; to make distinctively national. Also intransitive. Now rare.
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the world > people > nations > [verb (transitive)] > invest with national character
nationalize1799
1799 J. Barlow in Edinb. Advertiser 1 Feb. 5/3 The enmity of the old President towards France was now considered as nationalized in America.
1801 Ann. Reg. 1800 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 35/2 We wish to nationalize the republic, they to establish only their own party.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 26 ‘Rule Britannia’,..now become a national song... Long before it was nationalized—if one may use such a word—by Englishmen [etc.].
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 59 The very government of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom might be..nationalized.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 226 He took what may be called cosmopolitan traditions,..and nationalized them.
1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 July 483/2 The Turk, still thinking in terms of religions,..suddenly determined to Westernize and nationalize.
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the world > people > nations > [verb (transitive)] > make into a separate nation
nationalize1801
1801 F. Ames Wks. (1809) 142 New-England..of all colonies that ever were founded the largest, the most assimilated, and, to use the modern jargon, nationalized.
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the world > people > nations > national of a country > [verb (transitive)] > adopt or naturalize
naturalize1559
denize1577
denizen1577
free-denize1577
matriculate1579
denizate1604
free-denizen1609
nationalize1809
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [verb (transitive)] > admit to citizen's rights > naturalize
naturalize1559
endenizen1592
endenize1598
citizenize1798
nationalize1809
the world > people > nations > national of a country > [verb (intransitive)] > become naturalized
nationalize1891
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > right of specific class or person [verb (intransitive)] > gain citizenship
endenizen1598
nationalize1891
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 41 There are many resident English, who have been nationalized by express edict.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 Only Jutes, Angles, Saxons, and Danes..have succeeded in nationalizing themselves here.
1889 G. Gissing Nether World III. iii. 64 But it was not only at stage-triumph that Clara aimed; glorious in itself, this was also to serve her as a means of becoming nationalised among that race of beings whom birth and breeding exalt above the multitude.
1891 Sat. Rev. 4 July 1/2 The curious plan of keeping Russia for the Russians by forcing all foreign ‘colonists’ to nationalize or quit.
3. transitive. To bring (land, property, an industry, etc.) under state control or ownership. Also intransitive.
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the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > own jointly or communally > nationalize
nationalize1869
renationalize1885
1869 Daily News 21 Oct. It was ‘Bosh’ to talk of nationalising the land to starving thousands.
1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. xi. 296 After the land and the other instruments of production have been nationalised.
1881 G. C. Brodrick Eng. Land & Eng. Landlords 105 It is a perfectly intelligible proposition that all the land in the kingdom ought to be ‘nationalized’.
1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 2/5 Every industry I want to nationalize must be a business proposition.
1953 O. Caroe Soviet Empire xi. 175 Land and water had been nationalized and..redistributed in an arbitrary fashion.
1973 W. Haggard Old Masters iii. 36 Let them come in and build their railway... In a year or two he'd arrange some quarrel..and finally nationalize.
2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 259 They are perpetually coming up with radical and loopy ideas—destroy the IRS, nationalize health care.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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