different between expropriation vs nationalisation

English

Etymology

expropriate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?p?o?p?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)

1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
   • c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.

     The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.

Translations

See also

• eminent domain

French

Pronunciation

Noun

expropriation f (plural expropriations)

1. expropriation, confiscation, seizure
2. (law) eminent domain, compulsory purchase

Further reading

• “expropriation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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