nationalise

See also: nationalisé

English

Etymology

From French nationaliser, equivalent to national +‎ -ise.

Verb

nationalise (third-person singular simple present nationalises, present participle nationalising, simple past and past participle nationalised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
   • 1870, The Broadway, page 33:

     It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.

   • 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 513:

     Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission.

   • 2017 December 11, Jie Jenny Zou, “How big oil is tightening its grip on Donald Trump's White House”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. President Woodrow Wilson appoints multiple oil executives to war-effort committees and nationalises the railways.

   • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:

     It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.

Derived terms

• nationalisation
• renationalise

Anagrams

• alienations, alineations

French

Verb

nationalise

1. inflection of nationaliser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative