nationalizern.
/ˈnaʃn̩əlʌɪzə/, /ˈnaʃn̩l̩ʌɪzə/, /ˈnaʃənl̩ʌɪzə/, /ˈnaʃ(ə)nəlʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlaɪzər/ An advocate or supporter of the nationalization of land, property, industry, etc. Frequently in land-nationalizer.
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the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > collective ownership > communization or nationalization > advocate of
nationalizer1883
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 2/1 Will some of the ‘nationalizers’..employ a..real property lawyer to draft a bill for carrying out their purposes?
1883 Christian World 29 Nov. 839 Warred upon by the land nationaliser and socialist.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 262 Like myself, he was more than a land nationalizer.
1950 Times 28 Feb. 6/5 But the threat to free enterprise will continue so long as the nationalizers can persuade any political party to include in its programme their plans.
1971 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 10 The premiums [for nationalized motor insurance] would also be high, but the answer of the nationalisers is that their cost should be defrayed by an additional tax on petrol.
1996 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 90 62/2 In countries such as France, an early nationalizer with a strong republican tradition, the ideology of nationalism was put toward increasingly antirepublican purposes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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