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DENATIONALISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does denationalise mean?
• DENATIONALISE (verb)
The verb DENATIONALISE has 1 sense:
1. put under private control or ownership
Familiarity information: DENATIONALISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it denationalises Past simple: denationalised
Past participle: denationalised
-ing form: denationalising
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 "denationalise" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "denationalise"):
privatise; privatize (change from governmental to private control or ownership)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
nationalise (put under state control or ownership)
Derivation:
denationalisation (changing something from state to private ownership or control)
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