renationalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
France plans to pay 9.7 billion euros, about $9.8 billion, to renationalize its electricity company, in an effort to bolster energy independence, overhaul nuclear power and expand renewable sources.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
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
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
Mulder points to British Steel as the poster child: nationalized by Labour in 1951, privatized by Conservatives in 1953, renationalized by Labour in 1967 and reprivatized by Thatcher in 1987.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The prospect of Yukos being forcibly renationalized sent the Moscow stock market, which has performed strongly this year, down 10% in one of its biggest one-day declines since the debt crisis of 1998.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cultural exchange between France and Lombardy was so brisk that artists simply renationalized their names: Jean d'Arbois was also Giovanni d'Arbosio, and Giovanni Alcherio was equally recognized as Jean d'Auchier.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the worst problems: the lately renationalized steel industry, which has 100,000 more workers than steelmen say it needs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The British have seen their steel industry nationalized and denationalized; now it is going to be renationalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Starmer, who took office in 2024, began renationalizing railways and British Steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The government is now renationalizing its electricity giant and will spend 51.7 billion euros to build up to 14 next-generation reactors by 2035.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Since gradually renationalizing the industry in the 1970s, Saudi Arabia has not allowed the majors to develop its oil.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2017
But, he invariably adds, we would "of course consider" renationalizing those concerns that have been "privatized illegally."
From Time Magazine Archive
While Mitterrand opposes such a move, even he no longer wants to pursue what he calls the "ballet" of renationalizing firms made private under Chirac.
From Time Magazine Archive
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