Associations to the word «Denationalize»

Wiktionary

DENATIONALIZE, verb. (transitive) To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.
DENATIONALIZE, verb. (transitive) To strip of nationhood; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as a nation.

Dictionary definition

DENATIONALIZE, verb. Put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne