denationalize (English, verb)
expansion: denationalize (third-person singular simple present denationalizes, present participle denationalizing, simple past and past participle denationalized)
expansion: (American spelling, Oxford British English)
Senses:
glosses: To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
glosses: To strip of nationhood; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as a nation.
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
Forms:
form: denationalizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denationalizing
tags: participle
present
form: denationalized
tags: participle
past
form: denationalized
tags: past
form: denationalise
tags: alternative