say it: nash-uh-nuh-luh-ZAY-shuhn
nationalization is a noun meaning "the action of forming or becoming a nation". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the action of forming or becoming a nation
the action of rendering national in character
changing something from private to state ownership or control
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nationalization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.