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say it: NASH-uh-nuh-lahyz
nationalize is a verb meaning "put under state control or ownership". It carries 2 recorded senses.
put under state control or ownership
“Mitterand nationalized the banks”
make national in character or scope
“His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press”
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 nationalize 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.