renationalize

American  

[ree-na-shuhn-uhl-ahyz] / riˈnæ ʃən əlˌaɪz /

verb (used with object)

renationalized, renationalizing

1. to restore (something, usually a denationalized industry, property, etc.) to national control or to a nationalized status.

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Other Word Forms

• renationalization noun

Example Sentences

Britain could renationalize its biggest water utility after the sudden exit of its C.E.O. and its struggles under $17 billion worth of debt.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Energy crisis: France intends to renationalize EDF, its state-backed electricity giant, to help ensure the country’s energy sovereignty, its government said yesterday.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Related: France said that it would renationalize its state-backed electricity giant to help ensure the country’s energy sovereignty.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Rather than renationalize assets, as Mr. Putin did to sideline Russia’s oligarchs a decade or so ago, Mr. Saakashvili suggested that Ukraine could elbow the ultrarich from politics by cleaning up state-owned enterprises.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2016

But to almost everyone's relief, he left the Socialists a loophole, just in case they found themselves unable or unwilling to renationalize in the future.

From Time Magazine Archive