To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.
To strip of nationhood; to cease to recognise, or allow to exist, as a nation.
Doubtless, in thus denationalizing the Tahitians, as it were, the missionaries were prompted by a sincere desire for good; […]
From French dénationaliser, equivalent to de- + nationalize.
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