Found 2 items, similar to Denationalized.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: denationalize
denationalize
v : put under private control or ownership;
“The steel industry
was denationalized” [syn:
denationalise] [ant:
nationalize,
nationalize]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Denationalized
Denationalize
\De*na"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Denationalizing.] [Cf. F.
d['e]nationaliser.]
1. To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
[1913 Webster]
Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it,
all ships that have touched at a British port.
--Cobbett.
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An expatriated, denationalized race. --G. Eliot.
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2. to change (something, as an industry or business) from
state to private ownership or control; as, the British
denationalization of steel.
Syn: privatize, denationalise.
[WordNet 1.5]