renationalization
Returning to government
Renationalization is the return of a privatized industry or asset to government ownership.
The term implies the entity was once nationalized, then sold to private interests, and is now being brought back under state control: The party campaigned on renationalization of the railways.
The debate often centers on whether public services function better under government or private management.
Government taking private property
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- takeoverAssuming command of something
forfeiture · commandeering · dispossession · impounding · collectivization · socialization · municipalization · requisition
State-run employment realm
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- energyPower to do work
railways · assets · protectionism · sovereignty · subsidies · monopoly · autarky · tariffs
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- divestitureDisposal of assets
decentralization · outsourcing · commercialization · free-market · capitalism · corporatization · unbundling · sell-off
Official enactment of statutes
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- transitionChange from one state
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- transformationThorough change in form
regulation · administration · policy · authority · referendum · mandate · compensation · acquisition
expropriation
Government taking private property
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
takeover · forfeiture · commandeering · dispossession · impounding · collectivization · socialization · municipalization · requisition · compulsion
public-sector
State-run employment realm
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
energy · railways · assets · protectionism · sovereignty · subsidies · monopoly · autarky · tariffs · dirigisme
privatization
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
divestiture · decentralization · outsourcing · commercialization · free-market · capitalism · corporatization · unbundling · sell-off · auctioning
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- transitionChange from one state
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
transformation · regulation · administration · policy · authority · referendum · mandate · compensation · acquisition · transfer
renationalizationprivatization
State sells public assets
denationalization · selling off · divestiture · deregulation · outsourcing
renationalizationlaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
neoliberalism · Thatcherism · Reaganomics · capitalism · private enterprise
nation, nations, national, nationally, nationalize, nationalizes, nationalized, nationalizing, nationalization