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Denationalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To deprive of national rights or characteristics.

v. To transfer (an industry, for example) from governmental to private ownership.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.

v. To strip of nationhood; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as a nation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

v. to change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To divest of nationality, or of existing national relations or rights; subvert or change the na-tionality of, as a ship, a person, a people, or a territory, by change of flag, connection, or allegiance; give a new national character or relation to.

To divest of national scope or importance; limit to a particular locality; render local: as, to denationalize slavery or polygamy.

To deprive of national limitations or peculiarities; widen the relations, scope, or applicability of; make cosmopolitan.

Also spelled denationalise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. put under private control or ownership

Word Usage

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Verb Form

denationalized denationalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Hyponym

privatise privatize

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

internationalize nationalize rationalize renationalize