denationalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove (an industry or the like) from government ownership or control.
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to deprive of national status, attachments, or characteristics.
verb
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to return or transfer (an industry, etc) from public to private ownership
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to deprive (an individual, people, institution, etc) of national character or nationality
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of denationalize
First recorded in 1800–10; de- + nationalize
Example Sentences
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Even al-Qaeda commander Anwar al-Awlaki was still a U.S. citizen when he was killed by a U.S. drone in 2011, despite attempts by members of Congress to denationalize him.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2019
The second innovation is to denationalize the armed force projecting the corporation’s power.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017
The government acknowledges that it went too far in nationalizing industries in the early 1980s; it pledges to denationalize the automaker Renault and the National Bank of Paris within the next three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
He launched campaigns to denationalize steel and to increase electric power, cut 200,000 functionless functionaries from the government payroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a subtle and sustained attempt "to debauch the intellect of Ireland," as Mr. Locker-Lampson puts it, to denationalize her, and to make her own hands the instrument of her humiliation.
From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine
Effectively, it denationalized the issue by letting states go their separate ways.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
When the Republic of Latvia became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, property was denationalized and Latvians reclaimed it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
The British have seen their steel industry nationalized and denationalized; now it is going to be renationalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of 20 banks to be denationalized, Banque Paribas, brought $1.4 billion from no fewer than 3.8 million shareholders.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man who was accused of being denationalized stands as the most integrally and truly American among his contemporaries.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
By denationalizing it, they could put it on a course of ultimate extinction.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2012
He plans to lift all remaining price and exchange controls and seek a timetable for denationalizing industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Sir John knows that denationalizing a socialized industry is almost as tough a job as unscrambling an egg.
From Time Magazine Archive
At home, Senanayake will probably move slowly in denationalizing industry, but he does hope to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were expropriated in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have ever kept in mind the necessity of not denationalizing these Arab children, and we believe that this desired result has been attained.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
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