Denationalize /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing

1. To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

   Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port.

   An expatriated, denationalized race.

2. to change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control; as, the British denationalization of steel.