Definition of "renationalize" []

• To nationalize again, after a previous privatization (verb)

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• ""The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution", and identified three global forces threatening to "renationalize" the open internet: government, big IT, and network owners (telcos, cable operators, et al) who want the power to tier traffic, control content, and wall gardens for safety, fun, and profit."
• "The reckless privatization program and the production-sharing oil agreements should be eliminated, and Iraq should be allowed to renationalize key economic sectors like water and electricity and oil – which is the normal situation in the Middle East, after all."
• "After winning lucrative deals in the 1990s, Western oil companies met difficulties in Russia after Vladimir Putin, formerly president and now prime minister, started to renationalize Russia's energy sector early in the past decade."