nationalize
verb (used with object)
to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land.
were nationalizing
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past progressiveof nationalize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In the early part of the year 1919, the report reached America that the Bolshevist authorities were nationalizing women.
From The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto
