nationalised
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]nationalised
- simple past and past participle of nationalise
- 1948 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
- With each reduction in the number of railways, there must come, eventually, a decline in interest, if only through reduction in variety; and when it comes to one nationalised railway only we have reached the irreducible minimum.
- 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
- It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.