different between asset vs nationalisation

English

Etymology

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æs?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æs?t/, /?æs?t/

Noun

asset (plural assets)

1. Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered.

   These shares are a valuable asset.

   • January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech

     And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success.

2. (software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
3. (espionage) An intelligence asset.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
   • 2009, Kaitlynn Maguire and Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, p. 27:

     Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.

   • 2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, p. 189:

     “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”

Antonyms

• liability

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• asset-backed
• cultural asset

Translations

See also

• ownership equity

Anagrams

• SEATs, SESTA, Seats, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases, tasse

Danish

Noun

asset n

1. singular definite of as

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English asset.

Noun

asset m (invariable)

1. asset (economic)

Anagrams

• sesta
• stesa
• tasse
• tessa

Latin

Verb

asset

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ass?

Swedish

Noun

asset

1. definite singular of ass

Anagrams

• asets, etsas, tasse

English

Alternative forms

• nationalization (American and Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From French nationalisation. Surface etymology is nationalise +? -ation

Noun

nationalisation (countable and uncountable, plural nationalisations) (British spelling)

1. The act or process of nationalising:
   1. The act or process of making or becoming a nation.

      the nationalisation of India

   2. The act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
   3. The act of becoming nationalistic.
      • 2006, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster, Hilary Owen, South American Independence, page 185:

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

Synonyms

• (becoming nationalistic): patriotisation

Antonyms

• privatisation, privatization

Derived terms

• renationalisation

Related terms

• nationalise

Translations

French

Etymology

nationaliser +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

nationalisation f (plural nationalisations)

1. nationalization