Government
Government noun - Lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation).
Nationalized and government are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nationalized" instead an adjective "Government".
Nationalized
Government and nationalized are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Government" instead an adjective "Nationalized".
Both words in one sentence
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It eventually got so bad that the Belgian government officially nationalized the Congo, bringing them into the colonial system anyway.
Source: One Nation Under Copyright - The British didn't like it that the Iranian prime minister Mossadeq nationalized their big oil, so they toppled the democratically elected government and installed the Shah.
Source: Regime Change -
The Sovnarkom nationalized all land and industry, along with other sweeping decrees giving the Bolshevik government control over the whole of life.
Source: Useful Notes / Red October
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Nationalized and Government. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/nationalized
Government & Nationalized. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/nationalized>.
Nationalized or Government. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/nationalized.
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