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 on Tuesday detailed its plan to renationalize its electricity utility, EDF, to shore up the nation’s energy independence by refreshing its fleet of aging nuclear plants.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
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
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
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 British have seen their steel industry nationalized and denationalized; now it is going to be renationalized.
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
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
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
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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