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
The Prime Minister got a rousing cheer when he told the rebels of the government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
At the same time, I should denationalize Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoi and Dostoievski, making them Spaniards.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
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
Syria, which nationalized all its banks and insurance companies after it melded into Nasser's United Arab Republic and later denationalized some when it broke away, is now expected to enter a new period of nationalization.
From Time Magazine Archive
If exploration truly does become depoliticized and denationalized, as the experts hope it will, some international management agency will eventually have to be formed -- sort of a U.N. for space, perhaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jerusalem was lying under a heavy visitation, the people delivered over to the enemy, almost denationalized, and deprived of the sacrificial worship to which they had been accustomed.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney
By denationalizing it, they could put it on a course of ultimate extinction.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2012
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
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
But they were not discouraged; by means of organizations, political and economic, they fought this denationalizing effect of the towns.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
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