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
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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
Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom.
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
Its action was inspired less by a creed than an object, and that object was to dedicate our National Territories to freedom, and denationalize slavery.
From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian
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 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
After agreeing to end their five-year war in Yemen, Nasser unfroze more than $100 million worth of Saudi assets in Egypt, and Feisal denationalized two Egyptian-owned banks that he had taken over earlier this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not a cosmopolitanism, a world-union of undifferentiated and denationalized individuals, but a policy of compounding and accommodating permanent and distinct national interests.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
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
The late Captain Marryat declined to comply with these terms, although another English author, of undeniable reputation, has, it is affirmed, not scrupled to bolt this denationalizing pill.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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