nationalising

Government assuming ownership

Nationalising is the British spelling of nationalizing—the act of transferring private assets or industries into government ownership.

A country might nationalise railways, banks, or oil companies to bring them under public control: The government is nationalising the steel industry.

The opposite process is privatising.

ideology

collectivism

Group primacy doctrine

redistribution · left-wing · proletariat · revolution · Leninism · solidarity · anti-capitalism · equality · ideology

governance

public-sector

State-run employment realm

regulation · centralization · bureaucracy · consolidation · standardization · sovereignty · infrastructure · monopoly · command · unification

economics

protectionism

Shielding local producers

deregulation · subsidy · tariff · autarky

Opposites
ownership transfer direction

nationalisingprivatising

Selling government assets

privatizing · denationalizing · selling off · divesting · deregulating

economic ideology

nationalisingprivatising

Selling government assets

Thatcherism · Reaganomics · laissez-faire economics · deregulation · neoliberalism

Family

nation, national, nationalism, international, nationality, nationalize, nationalistic, nationalized, internationalize

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