municipalize
verb (used with object)
to make a municipality of.
municipalization
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a word derived from
municipalize.
Example Sentences
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Those challenges are why municipalization efforts often fail, as they did in 2020 when Boulder, Colo., abandoned its decadelong attempt to assume Xcel Energy’s operations in the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Then, during the municipalization years of Tammany Hall, corrupt officials took the reins of the city’s dog problem—with even worse results.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2014
From this municipalization of the provinces two districts were at first excluded on grounds of public policy.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
He does not object to the municipalization, or even nationalization, of mechanical monopolies, of industries which in fact do not admit of competition.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
The city of Birmingham, for example, developed the most extensive process of municipalization as the mere common-sense of local patriotism.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
