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nationalization
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nationalization as in:  nationalization of the industry

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    Only when the concessions of the mines were returned to the North American companies after three years of nationalization did a few voices suggest that this amounted to giving the country away wrapped in cellophane.†  (source)
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    There's the nationalization of all enterprises, but the municipal soviet needs fuel, and the Provincial Economic Council wants transportation.†  (source)
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    We could only guess at the foreign-exchange ins and outs, and the hidden beneficiaries, of that deal; the newspaper in the capital announced it as a kind of nationalization, with fair compensation.†  (source)
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    Within two years after the nationalization of its oil, the Iranian economy lay in shambles.†  (source)
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    Two days later, his business was nationalized and he was sentenced to two years in Ilava Prison, a place that had become famous for holding political prisoners and German prisoners after the war.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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    Which of them will nationalize the other?†  (source)
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    And often all the men, Mr. Leivers as well, had bitter debates on the nationalizing of the land and similar problems.†  (source)
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    Long-standing commercial ties, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping companies disappeared through loss of capital, absorption through nationalization, or by simple destruction.†  (source)
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    Sabina recalled how after the Communist coup all the castles in Bohemia were nationalized and turned into manual training centers, retirement homes, and also cow sheds.†  (source)
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    Because the Mexican government is going to nationalize your line any day now.†  (source)
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    But she heard and remembered discussions of Freud, Romain Rolland, syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Science, and fishing in Ontario.†  (source)
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    Hungary was overrun by the Soviets; Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal; the Chinese were supporting the Viet Minh against the French in Indochina; and the CIA had briefed Herter that the Soviets were working on a rocket that could carry a nuclear weapon thousands of miles right to the American heartland.†  (source)
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    So that the looters won't have too much to loot when they nationalize the line.†  (source)
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