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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DENATIONALIZE, v.t. To divest of national character or rights, by transferrence to the service of another nation. A ship built and registered in the United States, is denationalized by being employed in the service of another nation and bearing its flag.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized" [syn: denationalize, denationalise] [ant: nationalise, nationalize]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1807 1. to divest of national character or rights 2. to remove from ownership or control by the national government • denationalization noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 transfer (a nationalized industry or institution etc.) from public to private ownership. 2 a deprive (a nation) of its status or characteristics as a nation. b deprive (a person) of nationality or national characteristics. Derivatives: denationalization n. Etymology: F dénationaliser (as DE-, NATIONAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Denationalize De*na"tion*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing.] [Cf. F. d['e]nationaliser.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(denationalizes, denationalizing, denationalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'denationalise' To denationalize an industry or business means to transfer it into private ownership so that it is no longer owned and controlled by the state. (OLD-FASHIONED BUSINESS) The government started to denationalize financial institutions... = privatize ? nationalize VERB: V n • denationalization ...the denationalisation of industry. = privatization