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denationalize, v.|dɪˈnæʃənəlaɪz|
[a. F. dénationaliser (a word of the French Revolution), f. de- II. 1 + national, nationaliser.]
1. trans. 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).
1807Ann. Reg. 779 By these acts the British government denationalizes ships of every country in Europe. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 773 To denationalize themselves, and to endeavour to forget that they have a country. 1880McCarthy 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.
1839Times 29 June in Spirit Metropol. Conserv. Press (1840) II. 122 The attempt to..denationalise the education of the infant poor. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 266 That this crime against humanity [slavery]..should be denationalized.
b. To transfer (an industry, etc.) from national to private ownership. Also intr.
1921Times 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’. 1947Observer 21 Dec. 5/4 It was no part of the Conservative programme to denationalise coal. 1965New 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. 1970C. 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.
Hence deˈnationalized ppl. a., deˈnationalizer, deˈnationalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1812Q. Rev. VIII. 205 Those denationalised neutrals have no right to resist. 1848Tait's Mag. XV. 826 A horrid system of denationalizing has roused in them terrible passions. 1860Sat. Rev. X. 471/2 The cosmopolitan and denationalizing character of the Church. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 206 A long train of foreigners or denationalized Englishmen. |