verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nationalize an industry (= make it owned by the state )
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The rail industry was nationalized in the 1950s, with disastrous results.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Castro speeded up his land reforms and began to nationalize foreign holdings in Cuba.
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Mexico's vast oil reserves were nationalized in 1938.
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The mines were nationalized by the Labour Party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, in retrospect, perhaps I overstated the case by proposing that we nationalize the banks.
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Education and health, as well as land, were immediately nationalized.
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In 1956 Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
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In nineteen ninety four uh it was almost like a mini presidential election, it was the first nationalized congressional election.
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Their fundamental concern is the maintenance and expansion of their own material privileges on the basis of nationalized property.
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This change in status is implicit in discussions of whether the U. S. Government had the constitutional power to nationalize leprosy.