nationalize
verb🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
(British English also nationalise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they nationalize | 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/ 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it nationalizes | 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple nationalized | 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle nationalized | 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form nationalizing | 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- 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
Oxford Collocations DictionaryNationalize is used with these nouns as the object:- health service
- industry
- railway
- …