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Webster 1913 Edition
Denationalize
De-na′tion-al-ize
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Denationalized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Denationalizing
.] [Cf. F.
dénationaliser
.] 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 1828 Edition
Denationalize
DENATIONALIZE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
denationalize
denationalize
English
Verb
denationalize (third-person singular simple present denationalizes, present participle denationalizing, simple past and past participle denationalized)
- (transitive) To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.
- (transitive) To strip of nationhood; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as a nation.
- 1933, John T Tucker, Angola, the land of the blacksmith prince
- What does signify, however, is the assumption that evangelical missions introduce or maintain an alien culture and that they denationalize.
- 1933, John T Tucker, Angola, the land of the blacksmith prince
Translations
privatize
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