denationalised

Sold to private

Denationalised is the British spelling of denationalized, the past tense and participle of denationalise.

To denationalise is to transfer ownership of an industry or enterprise from government control to private hands—the reverse of nationalisation: British Rail was denationalised in the 1990s.

The process is also called privatisation.

privatization

privatized

Transferred to non-government ownership

divestiture · shareholders · renationalization · government assets · utilities · railways · telecommunications · airlines · energy sector · infrastructure

globalization

transnational

Crossing country lines

FDI · capital flows · global markets · integration · mobility · interconnectedness · cosmopolitanism · worldwide · exchange · cooperation

citizenship

stateless

Without national belonging

exile · deportation · revocation · allegiance · sovereignty · residency · immigration · refugee · displacement · repatriation

Opposites
ownership status

denationalisednationalised

Brought under government ownership

state-owned · government-owned · socialized · municipalised · collectivised

economic policy direction

denationalisednationalised

Brought under government ownership

state-controlled · socialised · collectivised · statist · expropriated

Family

nation, national, nationalism, international, nationality, nationalize, nationalistic, nationalized, nationalization

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