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What is the verb for nationality?

What's the verb for nationality? Here's the word you're looking for.

nationalize
  1. (rare) To make into, or to become, a nation.
  2. To bring a private company under the control of a specific government.
  3. To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
  4. (archaic) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Above all, they had been roused to anger by a recent decision of the Court to nationalize the railways.”
      “It's just that whenever you Labourite chaps see something that is large, privately owned and working well, you want to nationalize it.”
      “The first thing Lenin did after coming to power in 1917 was to nationalize all land and establish agricultural collectives.”
nationalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The impetus was provided by the Baath regime's decision to nationalise the oil industry.”
      “It wants greater control, to nationalise industries, regulate businesses, and tax everyone to the hilt.”
      “It is the Government's intention to nationalise or socialise the health sector, and we are seeing it with the primary health organisations.”
nationalises
nationalizes
nationalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of nationalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The same is the case with automated teller machines installed by nationalised banks.”
      “Most of the democracies in Europe at the time had diverse nationalised industries.”
      “This is because it is privatising the nationalised industries and services and doing everything in its power to attract foreign investment.”
nationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of nationalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Indeed, landowners were expropriated almost immediately, while banks, commerce and industry were nationalized.”
      “Such cultural diversity and geographic isolation have led to a nationalized sense of pride.”
      “Usually when I make this observation, I'm thinking of, say, Britain's late unlamented nationalized car industry.”
nationalising
  1. present participle of nationalise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They no longer harbour notions of socialism, or nationalising industry.”
      “Instead, the way they are being sold for a song, it looks as if the government is intent on privatising profits and nationalising losses, they say.”
      “The newly created Ministry of Transport suggested nationalising the railways with a separate, autonomous Scottish region.”
nationalizing
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