denationalize
di na shuh nuh lahyz
- v put under private control or ownership
The steel industry was denationalized
- The Tories, who inherited worse problems than they expected after six years of Socialism, have moved uncertainly to denationalize road transport, and not at all to denationalize .
- The Prime Minister got a rousing cheer when he told the rebels of the government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment.
- Then the new Prime Minister announced that he would denationalize up to 57 banks and companies, many of which had been nationalized before the Socialists came to power five years .