nostrification

First attested in 1885; learned borrowing from Latin noster (“our, ours”, oblique stem in nostr-) -ification.

nostrification (countable and uncountable, plural nostrifications)

1. The process or act of granting recognition to a degree from a foreign university.
2. The expropriation of foreign owned capital to domestic persons.
   • 2018, Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, section 137:

     It was such acts of expropriating foreign-owned property—or what was called nostrification in postimperial Central Europe when the property was given to private nationals—that Hayek complained of in The Road to Serfdom.

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