a nationalised industrynationalisena‧tion‧al‧ise /ˈnæʃənəlaɪz/ verb [transitive] 
VERB TABLE
nationalise (BrE)
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | nationalise (BrE) |
| he, she, it | nationalises (BrE) | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | nationalised (BrE) |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have nationalised (BrE) |
| he, she, it | has nationalised (BrE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had nationalised (BrE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will nationalise |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have nationalised (BrE) |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am nationalising (BrE) |
| he, she, it | is nationalising (BrE) | |
| you, we, they | are nationalising (BrE) | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was nationalising (BrE) |
| you, we, they | were nationalising (BrE) | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been nationalising (BrE) |
| he, she, it | has been nationalising (BrE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been nationalising (BrE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be nationalising (BrE) |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been nationalising (BrE) |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And they're going to nationalise the health service.
- But he didn't want to nationalise them, he just wanted them - for himself.
- However, the authorities can provide the debt relief badly needed to stabilise the economy by nationalising the banks.
- It does, however, put the onus of proof, case by case, on those who would nationalise industry.
- Outrage at what they saw as the pillaging of their resources led many Latin countries to nationalise oil firms.
- Subsidise it; bail it out; or nationalise it, so that it was protected by the bottomless purse of the taxpayer.
- The government should nationalise all of its banks.
- They also wished to nationalise certain industries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a nationalised industry
a British spelling of nationalize a nationalised industry