nationalize

To convert from private to governmental ownership and control.

To make national in character, scope, or notoriety.

To render distinctively national.

To make national: as, to nationalize an institution.

To give the character of a nation to; stamp with the political attachments which belong to citizens of the same nation: as, to nationalize a foreign colony.

To make the property of the state or nation for national uses; abolish private ownership in, and vest in the nation for national use: as, to nationalize the land of a country.

Also spoiled nationalise.

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.

To change ownership of (a business, a property) from private ownership to state ownership or control.