denationalize
verb /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
/ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪz/
(British English also denationalise)
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they denationalize | /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪz/ /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪz/ |
he / she / it denationalizes | /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪz/ /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪz/ |
past simple denationalized | /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ |
past participle denationalized | /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzd/ |
-ing form denationalizing | /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˌdiːˈnæʃnəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- denationalize something to sell a company or an industry so that it is no longer owned by the state but becomes a private business
synonym privatize opposite nationalize使私有化;使非国有化 词源early 19th cent. (originally meaning to deprive someone of their nationality): from French dénationaliser (a word of the French Revolution), from dé- (expressing reversal) + nationaliser ‘nationalize’.