The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denationalize \De*na"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing.] [Cf. F. d['e]nationaliser.]
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To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port.
--Cobbett.An expatriated, denationalized race.
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to change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control; as, the British denationalization of steel.
Syn: privatize, denationalise.
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vb. (en-past of: denationalize)
Usage examples of "denationalized".
He spoke in a smooth denationalized English, which, like the look in his long-lashed eyes and the promptness of his charming smile, suggested a long training in all the arts of expediency.
Susy had always lived among people so denationalized that those one took for Russians generally turned out to be American, and those one was inclined to ascribe to New York proved to have originated in Rome or Bucharest.