Definitions for: Denationalize


[v] put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized"



Webster (1913) Definition: De*na"tion*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing.] [Cf. F.
d['e]nationaliser.]
To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all
ships that have touched at a British port. --Cobbett.

An expatriated, denationalized race. --G. Eliot.

Synonyms: denationalise

Antonyms: nationalise, nationalize

See Also: alter, change, privatise, privatize

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