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Meaning of nationalise | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.

UK, alt-of, nonstandard

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Examples

“It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babyloniseall the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.”
Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission.”
The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. President Woodrow Wilson appoints multiple oil executives to war-effort committees and nationalises the railways.”
“It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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