renationalizev.

1848 N.Y. Herald 22 Apr. Vigorous attempts are being made to renationalize Poland.

1866 D. N. Lord Louis Napoleon xxii. 405 When the Catholic church is renationalized by the imperial chief and the kings of the ten kingdoms.

1895 Times 26 Mar. 7/1 If true, why should it [sc. the Church in Wales] not be renationalized?

1927 Scots Observer 26 Feb. 15/3 Professor M'Fadyen..has given us..a book..based on his rich experience as a missionary professor in India... The argument that missions denationalise the native is noted, and reasons are given for the contention that missions really renationalise.

1972 Philos. East & West 22 16 He had been unhappy because of his years in England and was eager to renationalize himself.

2000 J. McLaughlin Writing Urban Jungle vi. 157 The people he gazes upon..are ‘denationalized’, not, as one might have expected (or hoped), renationalized.

1885 Ringwood Guardian 31 Jan. 7/1 (heading) Re-nationalising the land.

1951 Times 21 Nov. 3/2 We would support the Labour Party in renationalizing the industry, if returned to power at a future General Election.

1954 Ann. Reg. 1953 22 Steel and transport were to be renationalized.

1959 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 19/7 Its proposals not only to renationalise steel and road transport but also to nationalise by one means or another half of British industry.

1980 Times 30 Sept. 4/6 The next Labour Government would renationalize..transport activity.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Feb. 30/1 He added that Russia's reassertion of state control over its oil industry, which had included the renationalization of two big producers..was damaging the economy.