denationalize

• Verbe désignant le transfert de la propriété ou du contrôle d'une entreprise, d'un service ou d'un actif du secteur public (gouvernement) vers le secteur privé, le plus souvent par la vente ou la privatisation.

A verb used to indicate the act of transferring ownership or control of an industry, service, or asset from the public sector (government) to the private sector.

1. Transfer to private ownershipC1formal

   To transfer an industry, company, or service from state or public ownership to private control or ownership.

   dénationaliser (privatiser)

   • The government decided to denationalize the railway system.
   • Many countries denationalized their telecommunications industries in the 1990s.
   • The process to denationalize the state-owned bank took several years.