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Definition: Nationalize |
NationalizeVerb1. Put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Nationalize \Na"tion*al*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Nationalized; present participle verb or noun Nationalizing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: NationalizeSynonym: nationalise (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: denationalize (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nationalize |
| English words defined with "nationalize": Nationalized, Nationalizing. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Russia | The current Russian federal leadership is unlikely to nationalize foreign investment or engage in expropriation. (references) |
Iran | In 1951, Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, a militant nationalist, forced the parliament to nationalize the British-owned oil industry. (references) | |
Guinea | The Government of Guinea provides a guarantee, in the 1987 investment code, that it will not, except for reasons of public interest, take any steps to expropriate or nationalize foreign or locally held assets or businesses. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | In November Lukashenka rescinded a decree issued in 1999 that allowed the authorities to nationalize the property of any individual the President determined to have caused financial damage to the State. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nationalize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "Nationalize" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 84.21% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nationalize": re-nationalize. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nationalize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nacionalizoj, shtetëzoj, marr në nënshtetësi. (various references) | |
Arabic | جنس (brood, genus, sex, sexiness, sort), أمم, أضفى عليه الصفة القومية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обединявам в нация, национализирам (deconsecrate), натурализирам (naturalize). (various references) | |
Chinese | 国有化 (nationalisation, nationalise, Nationalization, Nationalized, Nationalizing). (various references) | |
Czech | znárodnit. (various references) | |
Dutch | nationaliseren, naasten. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝtatigi. (various references) | |
Farsi | ملی کردن , ملی شدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sosialisoida (socialize, to socialize), kansallistaa. (various references) | |
French | nationaliser. (various references) | |
German | verstaatlichen (put under state control, secularize). (various references) | |
Greek | πολιτογραφώ (naturalize), εθνικοποιώ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"לאים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | honosít (denizen, naturalize, to nationalize, to naturalize), beolvaszt (assimilate, melt down, smelt down, to affiliate, to assimilate, to incorporate, to meld, to smelt down), államosít (to nationalize, to secularize, to socialize). (various references) | |
Italian | nazionalizzare (nationalise). (various references) | |
Korean | 국 "하십시" (nationalise). (various references) | |
Manx | ashoonaghtey, ashoonaghey (nationalization). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ationalizenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | naturalizar (domestication, naturalize), naturalização (acclimate, acclimation, investing aliens with all the privileges and obligations of the citizens, naturalization), nacionalizar, socializar (socialize, to socialize), estatizar. (various references) | |
Romanian | naturaliza (denizen, naturalize), naţionaliza, transforma în naţiune. (various references) | |
Russian | национализировать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nacionalizovati, primiti u državljanstvo. (various references) | |
Spanish | nacionalizar. (various references) | |
Swedish | förstatliga (communize). (various references) | |
Thai | โอนชาติ (nationalise), ทำให้เป็นของรัฐ (nationalise), กำกับ"ูแลโ"ยรัฐบาล (nationalise). (various references) | |
Turkish | millileştirmek, kamulaştırmak (condemn, confiscate, dispossess, expropriate, impress, sequestrate, socialize), devletleştirmek. (various references) | |
Ukranian | націоналізувати (socialize), натуралізувати (enfranchise), приймати у громадянство, перетворювати на націю. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwladoli, cenedlaetholi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nationalize": nationalized, nationalizer, nationalizers, nationalizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nationalize": denationalize, internationalize, renationalize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nationalize": denationalized, denationalizes, internationalized, internationalizes, renationalized, renationalizes. (additional references) | |
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"Nationalize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nationalis, Nationaliste, Nazionali, Naziunali. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nationalize" (pronounced na"shunulī'z or na"shnulī'z) |
| 9 | n a" sh u n u l ī' z | denationalize, internationalize, renationalize. |
| 8 | -a" sh u n u l ī' z | rationalize. |
| 7 | -sh u n u l ī' z | deinstitutionalize, fictionalize, professionalize. |
| 6 | -u n u l ī' z | criminalize, depersonalize, marginalize, personalize, regionalize. |
| 5 | -n u l ī' z | analyze, finalize, internalize, penalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, crystallize, decentralize, demobilize, demoralize, departmentalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, legalize, liberalize, localize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, radicalize, recapitalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
| 5 | -n u l ī' z | analyze, criminalize, deinstitutionalize, denationalize, depersonalize, fictionalize, finalize, internalize, internationalize, marginalize, penalize, personalize, professionalize, rationalize, regionalize, renationalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, crystallize, decentralize, demobilize, demoralize, departmentalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, legalize, liberalize, localize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, radicalize, recapitalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-z" | |
-1 letter: alienation. | |
-2 letters: antialien, lineation. | |
-3 letters: latinize, lenition, national, neonatal. | |
-4 letters: aeolian, aeonian, alanine, alation, aniline, antlion, elation, enation, lionize, nitinol, toenail. | |
-5 letters: alanin, anilin, anneal, anoint, atonal, azonal, entail, entoil, eolian, eonian, etalon, innate, intine, intone, iolite, ionize, lanate, latino, linnet, nation, online, taenia, talion, tenail, tineal, tolane, zealot, zeatin, zenana, zinnia, zonate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-z" | |
+1 letter: melanization, nationalized, nationalizer, nationalizes, penalization. | |
+2 letters: denationalize, linearization, melanizations, nationalizers, penalizations, renationalize, vernalization. | |
+3 letters: centralization, channelization, denationalized, denationalizes, desalinization, evangelization, gelatinization, generalization, linearizations, mineralization, neutralization, recanalization, renationalized, renationalizes, sensationalize, sensualization, vernalizations. | |
+4 letters: centralizations, channelizations, denationalizing, desalinizations, evangelizations, externalization, gelatinizations, generalizations, internalization, mineralizations, neutralizations, personalization, recanalizations, regionalization, renationalizing, renormalization, sensationalized, sensationalizes, sensualizations. | |
+5 letters: decentralization, demineralization, denaturalization, denuclearization, externalizations, internalizations, internationalize, personalizations, proletarianizing, recentralization, regionalizations, renormalizations, reorganizational, sensationalizing, technicalization, universalization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- - .. --- -. .- .-.. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a t i o n a l i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C 0069 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4867867581806778759271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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