municipalised

Transferred to town

Municipalised is the British spelling of municipalized, the past tense of municipalize—to bring under municipal ownership or control.

Utilities, transit systems, and other services may be municipalised when local government takes them over from private operators: The city municipalised the water supply after complaints about the private company's rates.

governance

nationalisation

State acquisition of industry

cooperative · communal · democratised · decentralised · self-governance · participatory · township · ward · residents · citizens

utilities

electricity

Energy from charged particles

railways · buses · trams · subways · broadband · telecommunications · sanitation · metering · ratepayers · tariffs

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ownership/control

municipalisedprivatised

Transferred to commercial ownership

privatized · denationalised · denationalized · deregulated · corporatised

level of governmental control

municipalisednationalised

Brought under government ownership

federalised · centralised · regionalized

Family

municipal, municipality, munificent, munificence, municipalities, municipalize, municipally, municipalized, municipalization

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