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DENATIONALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denationalize mean? 

DENATIONALIZE (verb)
  The verb DENATIONALIZE has 1 sense:

1. put under private control or ownershipplay

  Familiarity information: DENATIONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DENATIONALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they denationalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it denationalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: denationalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: denationalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: denationalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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)


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