nationalize

verb
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
(British English also nationalise)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they nationalize
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
he / she / it nationalizes
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪz/
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past simple nationalized
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/
past participle nationalized
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/
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-ing form nationalizing
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/
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  1. nationalize something to put an industry or a company under the control of the government, which becomes its owner将…国有化
    • The government announced plans to nationalize the public transport system.政府宣布了将公共交通系统国有化的计划。
    • nationalized industries国有化行业
    opposite denationalize, privatize
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryNationalize is used with these nouns as the object:
    • health service
    • industry
    • railway
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