Nationalize vs Rationalize - What's the difference?
nationalize | rationalize |
(rare) To make into, or to become, a nation.
* 1910 , History for Ready Reference from the Best Historians , page 316:
To bring a private company under the control of a specific government.
To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
(archaic) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
To make something rational or more rational.
To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
(mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.
As verbs the difference between nationalize and rationalize
is that nationalize is (rare) to make into, or to become, a nation while rationalize is to make something rational or more rational.nationalize
English
(wikipedia nationalize)Alternative forms
* nationalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Probably no Hindu who could make intelligent use of political freedom ever dreams of the present possibility of a nationalized India,