alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
privatise, privatize - change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized"
nationalize, nationalise - put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks"
This led the military dictator General Zia-ul Haq reversing Bhutto's policies and drafting fresh ones to denationalize institutions which only ended up benefiting a few rich business magnates such as the future prime minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif, who was also a protege of the military dictator.
The first preeminent mission was to denationalize and depoliticize conquered Serbia in preparation for its becoming part of Habsburg territory, the subject of Chapter 2.
On the British government's decision to denationalize any British person who takes part in the battles in Syria and when will the Syrian government make such a decision, al-Zoubi said, "The British government is denationalizing the persons who acquired the its citizenship as the majority of Britons who came to Syria are not from British origins.
