English Dictionary |
DENATIONALIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does denationalize mean?
• DENATIONALIZE (verb)
The verb DENATIONALIZE has 1 sense:
1. put under private control or ownership
Familiarity information: DENATIONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: denationalized
Past participle: denationalized
-ing form: denationalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put under private control or ownership
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
denationalise; denationalize
Context example:
The steel industry was denationalized
Hypernyms (to "denationalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "denationalize"):
privatise; privatize (change from governmental to private control or ownership)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
nationalize (put under state control or ownership)
Derivation:
denationalization (changing something from state to private ownership or control)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." (Native American proverb, Shawnee)
"He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light." (Arabic proverb)
"Theory dominates practice." (Corsican proverb)