Definition of Denationalise

1. Verb. Put under private control or ownership. "The steel industry was denationalized"

Exact synonyms: Denationalize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Privatise, Privatize
Derivative terms: Denationalisation, Denationalization
Antonyms: Nationalise, Nationalize

Definition of Denationalise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of denationalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Denationalise

denarian
denarians
denaries
denarii
denarius
denariuses
denars
denary
denasalization
denasalizations
denasalize
denasalized
denasalizes
denasalizing
denationalisation
denationalise
denationalised
denationalises
denationalising
denationalization
denationalize
denationalized
denationalizes
denationalizing
denatonium
denatonium benzoate
denaturability
denaturable
denaturalisation
denaturalisations

Literary usage of Denationalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. India's Women: The Magazine of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society by Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (1886)
"Christianity ought not to denationalise a people, and it seems plain that, ... belong to the essence of Christianity to denationalise its Asiatic adherents. ..."

2. Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England by Arnold Toynbee, Benjamin Jowett (1887)
"The entire tendency of the modern or Malthusian Political Economy is to denationalise," said Coleridge. " At the very outset," he said on another occasion, ..."

3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1869)
"As to change of nationality :— A member of a State should have power to denationalise himself:— 1. By the observance of certain prescribed formalities. 2. ..."

4. The Crowd in Peace and War by William Martin Conway (1915)
"In later days the effort has frequently been made to denationalise a conquered nation. Cromwell tried to denationalise the Irish and failed. ..."

5. Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes by Arnold Toynbee, Benjamin Jowett (1884)
"The entire tendency of the modern or Malthusian Political Economy is to denationalise," said Coleridge. " At the very outset," he said on another occasion," ..."

6. Buddhist Popular Lectures Delivered in Ceylon in 1907 by Annie Wood Besant (1908)
"Denationalise your boys, and their mothers may renationalise them; but denationalise your women, and who shall save the children who are born of their wombs ..."

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