Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deprive of national rights or characteristics.
- transitive verb To transfer (an industry, for example) from governmental to private ownership.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divest of nationality, or of existing national relations or rights; subvert or change the na-tionality of, as a ship, a person, a people, or a territory, by change of flag, connection, or allegiance; give a new national character or relation to.
- To divest of national scope or importance; limit to a particular locality; render local: as, to
denationalize slavery or polygamy. - To deprive of national limitations or peculiarities; widen the relations, scope, or applicability of; make cosmopolitan.
- Also spelled
denationalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
- transitive verb to change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
transfer thecontrol andownership of anindustry fromgovernment toprivate hands; toprivatize . - verb transitive To strip of
nationhood ; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as anation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put under private control or ownership
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Examples
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The government possessed a resource of incalculable value; but it was firm public policy to denationalize it as soon as possible.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The government possessed a resource of incalculable value; but it was firm public policy to denationalize it as soon as possible.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The government possessed a resource of incalculable value; but it was firm public policy to denationalize it as soon as possible.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The governing policy of Serbia's rulers has consistently been to denationalize the Albanians of Kosova, or failing that, to oppress, deport or exterminate them.
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Even when the possessions of the ecclesiastics have been bestowed on them by wills, or in any other manner, the donors have not been able to denationalize the property by abstracting it from public charges and the authority of the laws.
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Their stated intent is to denationalize the immense natural wealth of the region, and turn it over to private corporations; to force the Islamic Arab states to join the World Trade Organization, and to accept capitalism as the new religious order.
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You can just imagine a situation in which the Americans wanted to denationalize Iraqi companies.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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I cannot say here that all your businesses should be nationalized or that you should not denationalize any businesses.
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I am being frank about this: We have no need to denationalize anything.
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