denationalize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb put under private control or ownership
    denationalise.
    • The steel industry was denationalized

WordNet

De*na"tion*al*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. dénationaliser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Denationalized ; present participle & verbal noun Denationalizing
Definitions
  1. To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
    Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett.
    An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

Webster 1913