Find the word definition

Wiktionary
denationalise

vb. (alternative spelling of denationalize English)

WordNet
denationalise

v. put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized" [syn: denationalize] [ant: nationalize, nationalize]

Usage examples of "denationalise".

Certain industries were even denationalised, but the major levers of the economy, the banks, insurance companies, the large industries, together with the monopoly of foreign trade, remained in the hands of the state.

But these people were as denationalised as the dishes set before them with every circumstance of unstamped respectability.