nationalise
- v make national in character or scope
- v put under state control or ownership
- Until then the objectors to the Geithner Plan are left saying nationalise now, but without an answer to the nasty question of which banks to nationalise.
- I also hope that, if the authorities decide not to nationalise AIG completely at this stage, they will still succeed in making the senior unsecured debt holders and creditors of .
- In Monotony the aim is to nationalise everything.