denationalized

Transferred to privatization

Denationalized describes something that has been removed from government ownership or control and transferred to private hands.

Industries, companies, or services that were once state-run become denationalized through privatization: The denationalized railway struggled under new management.

Less commonly, it can mean stripped of national character or citizenship.

privatization

privatization

State sells public assets

free market · shareholders · buyout · equity · mergers · acquisitions · outsourcing · commercialization · state assets · public-to-private

globalization

borderless

Without defined limits

cosmopolitan · worldwide · integration · interdependence · capital flow · foreign ownership · offshoring · deterritorialization · economic integration · currency exchange

citizenship

statelessness

Having no recognized citizenship

citizenship · deportation · exile · asylum · refugee · displaced · paperless · undocumented · naturalization · repatriation

identity

rootlessness

State of having no anchor

assimilation · exile · identity crisis · disaffiliation · disconnection · belonging · heritage · homeland · uprooting · hybridity

Opposites
ownership status

denationalizednationalized

Made government property

nationalize · state-owned · government-owned · socialized · collectivized

policy direction

denationalizednationalized

Made government property

socialized · collectivized · expropriated · requisitioned · commandeered

Family

denationalize, denationalization, denationalizes, denationalizing

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