denationalize
verb(British English also denationalise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they denationalize | |
| he / she / it denationalizes | |
| past simple denationalized | |
| past participle denationalized | |
| -ing form denationalizing |
- denationalize something
to sell a company or an industry so that it is no longer owned by the state but becomes a private business 使私有化；使非国有化 Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally meaning to deprive someone of their nationality): from French dénationaliser (a word of the French Revolution), from dé- (expressing reversal) + nationaliser ‘nationalize’.