'Denationalize' definitions:
Definition of 'denationalize'
From: WordNet
verb
Put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized" [syn: denationalize, denationalise] [ant: nationalise, nationalize]
Definition of 'Denationalize'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An expatriated, denationalized race. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 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]