denationalize

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Even al-Qaeda commander Anwar al-Awlaki was still a U.S. citizen when he was killed by a U.S. drone in 2011, despite attempts by members of Congress to denationalize him.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2019

The second innovation is to denationalize the armed force projecting the corporation’s power.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2017

The government acknowledges that it went too far in nationalizing industries in the early 1980s; it pledges to denationalize the automaker Renault and the National Bank of Paris within the next three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Prime Minister got a rousing cheer when he told the rebels of the government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a subtle and sustained attempt "to debauch the intellect of Ireland," as Mr. Locker-Lampson puts it, to denationalize her, and to make her own hands the instrument of her humiliation.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine