nationalise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo."
- "Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission."
- "The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. President Woodrow Wilson appoints multiple oil executives to war-effort committees and nationalises the railways."
- "It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage