- Language
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Nationalized and nationalised are both English terms.
- Usage
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Nationalized is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (
en-US) while nationalised is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:
Term US UK India Philippines Canada Australia Liberia Ireland New Zealand Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Guyana nationalized 92 8 17 100 78 25 0 27 0 100 0 0 nationalised 8 92 83 0 22 75 0 73 100 0 0 0
- In the United States, there is a preference for "nationalized" over "nationalised" (92 to 8).
- In the United Kingdom, there is a 92 to 8 preference for "nationalised" over "nationalized".
- In India, there is a 83 to 17 preference for "nationalised" over "nationalized".
- In the Philippines, there is a preference for "nationalized" over "nationalised" (100 to 0).
- In Canada, there is a preference for "nationalized" over "nationalised" (78 to 22).
- In Australia, there is a 75 to 25 preference for "nationalised" over "nationalized".
- In Liberia, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "nationalized" and "nationalised".
- In Ireland, there is a 73 to 27 preference for "nationalised" over "nationalized".
- In New Zealand, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "nationalised" over "nationalized".
- In Jamaica, there is a preference for "nationalized" over "nationalised" (100 to 0).
- In Trinidad & Tobago, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "nationalized" and "nationalised".
- In Guyana, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "nationalized" and "nationalised".
- Examples
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Below, we provide some examples of when to use nationalized or nationalised with sample sentences.
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Examples in Context
Examples of “nationalized”
- Store Norske was nationalized between 1973 and 1976.
- …of 6 September 1944, which nationalized all privately owned land of…
- …curtailed when the newspaper was nationalized in 1962.
- …land, resources, and infrastructure were nationalized during this time, concentrating all…
- …in the management boards of nationalized companies, and were hostile to…
- The Ērenpreis company was nationalized by the USSR and renamed…
- All his factories were nationalized by the communists in 1948…
- The line was nationalized in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi
- His company was seized and nationalized by the provisional government of…
- …was semi-private, but the government nationalized it in 1950.
Examples of “nationalised”
- …December 1975 the brewery was nationalised and became a state-operated enterprise.
- The colliery was nationalised in 1947.
- …January 1948 the LNER was nationalised and the port came under…
- It was nationalised in 1879.
- …where the whole land was nationalised with the purpose of planned…
- …of the railway which was nationalised three years later.
- …and a member of the Nationalised Industries Advisory Committee.
- …railway companies in Britain, was nationalised under the Transport Act 1947.
- …face government pressure to be nationalised)
- …Transport Act 1968 classified the nationalised waterways into three distinct categories…
