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denationalisation

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  • noun same as denationalization.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of denationalization.

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  • noun changing something from state to private ownership or control

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Examples

  • Conservatives are likely to argue that denationalisation of the banks, brought into semi-public ownership in the years following the banking crash in 2007, should either be used to reduce the deficit, provide tax breaks or even restore public spending.

    Nick Clegg calls for public to get shares in bailed-out banks 2011

  • Conservatives are likely to argue that denationalisation of the banks, brought into semi-public ownership in the years following the banking crash in 2007, should either be used to reduce the deficit, provide tax breaks or even restore public spending.

    Nick Clegg calls for public to get shares in bailed-out banks 2011

  • No wonder Kingsley Manning of the health firm Tribal is looking forward to the "denationalisation of healthcare services in England".

    We cannot allow the end of the NHS in all but name 2010

  • Donors have made the denationalisation of ZCCM mines a condition for the release of 530 million dollars in pledged funds, saying if money was disembursed now it would be pumped in the financially crippled conglomerate.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It has announced the denationalisation of eight million Africans and it is now imposing a new constitution which totally excludes the African majority and further entrenches racism.

    NO ACCOMMODATION WITH APARTHEID 1984

  • The Bill, when it arrived in the Diet, turned out to be entirely subversive of the existing military organisation, and tended to a complete denationalisation of the Finnish army; it contained no provision as to the limitation of recruits to be taken out annually for service with the colours, and their number might be increased five or even six times, as compared with the number taken out under the old law.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • That is the deathly element in denationalisation; that it poisons life itself, the most real of all realities ....

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • Thus they were deprived of intellectual leaders and are doomed to complete denationalisation, unless liberated and united with the Czechs in an independent Bohemia.

    Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

  • Parliament to Lord Dunraven and his friends, and he was further charged with being concerned in a conspiracy having for its object the denationalisation of the _Freeman_.

    Ireland Since Parnell 1910

  • No doubt the noble example of CLARA BUTT and CARRIE TUBB is fortifying and reassuring, and there are also clamant proofs that denationalisation is no passport to eminence.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Various 1898

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