to denationalize

Examples

• All

• Mexico has created a web of new bureaucratic agencies, a new level of federal involvement, even as it attempts to denationalize the very countryside it proposes to abandon to free-market forces.

  Academic text (2008)

• Property must be denationalized and a number of enterprises transferred to private, collective, or joint-stock ownership.

  Academic text (1991)

• The result is a much more integrated and, to an increasing extent, denationalized global economy.

  Academic text (1993)

• While only Chile accomplished many of its privatization goals, it also took them more than ten years to denationalize the state.

  Academic text (2003)

• Nor do they recommend an outright privatization program to denationalize existing state-owned enterprises.

  Academic text (1994)

• Instead of denationalizing the land, we went no further than leaseholding within the framework of the existing collective farm and state farm system of labor organization.

  Academic text (1991)

• The buzzwords privatization and liberalization were precise cues for denationalizing state industry and passing the advantage on to foreign capital in the tough new arena of nontraditional production for the international market.

  Academic text (1998)

• The honeymoon hypothesis may explain Chile's privatization in 1975, but it does not account for Chile's sell-off of most of its largest SOEs ten years later or explain why Argentina and Uruguay struggled to denationalize.

  Academic text (2003)

• After years of debate, the city council voted to denationalize the subway system and hand it over to a private company.

• Experts agree that denationalizing the healthcare services could improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Synonyms

P

to privatize

vsto denationalize

• US

61 6.4

To move a government business or service to private companies

has the same meaning but is an alternative term

Antonyms

N

to nationalize

• Specialized

25 6.8

To bring an industry or company under government control

How Privatized

to denationalize

• Specialized

8.4

to sell off

57 3.5

transfer

355 3.2

to outsource

65 5.3

to delegate

45 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology