nationalisation

noun5

1. •
   The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
2. •
   The act or process of nationalising.
3. •
   The process of losing local and regional variation and becoming national in character and scope.
4. •
   The act or process of making or becoming a nation.
5. •
   The act of becoming nationalistic.

   • […] study of the legacy of classical republican patriotism through to the nationalisation of patriotism […] — 2006