denationalizev.
/dɪˈnaʃənəlʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To deprive of nationality; to take his proper nationality from (a person, a ship, etc.); to destroy the independent or distinct nationality of (a country).
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the world > people > nations > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of nationality
denationalize1807
1807 Ann. Reg. 779 By these acts the British government denationalizes ships of every country in Europe.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 773 To denationalize themselves, and to endeavour to forget that they have a country.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 365 New steps were taken for denationalising the country and effecting its..subjugation.
2.
a. To make (an institution, etc.) no longer national; to divest of its character as belonging to the whole nation, or to a particular nation.
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the world > people > nations > [verb (transitive)] > divest of national character
denationalize1839
1839 Times 29 June in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) II. 122 The attempt to..denationalise the education of the infant poor.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 266 That this crime against humanity [slavery]..should be denationalized.
b. To transfer (an industry, etc.) from national to private ownership. Also intransitive.
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the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > own jointly or communally > denationalize
denationalize1921
privatize1923
reprivatize1937
1921 Times 17 Jan. 10/2 The object of the..agitation is not to improve the [telephone] service, but to get it denationalized, ‘to get it handed over to private capitalists’.
1947 Observer 21 Dec. 5/4 It was no part of the Conservative programme to denationalise coal.
1965 New Statesman 7 May 714/1 All this fuss about steel would have been quite unnecessary if the Churchill cabinet had stood firm against backbench pressure to denationalise in 1951.
1970 C. N. Parkinson Law of Delay 62 The Conservatives tried timidly to go into reverse over steel and road haulage. But a process by which those or other industries should be nationalised and denationalised is not technically possible.
Derivatives
deˈnationalized adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [adjective] > having lost one's nationality
denationalized1812
1812 Q. Rev. 8 205 Those denationalised neutrals have no right to resist.
1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 206 A long train of foreigners or denationalized Englishmen.
deˈnationalizer n.
deˈnationalizing n. and adj.
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the world > people > nations > [noun] > loss of national status
denaturalization1811
denationalization1814
denationalizing1848
disnaturalization1874
denationalism1923
1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 826 A horrid system of denationalizing has roused in them terrible passions.
1860 Sat. Rev. 10 471/2 The cosmopolitan and denationalizing character of the Church.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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