To denationalize an industry or business means to transfer it into private ownership so that it is no longer owned and controlled by the state.
例句
The government started to denationalize financial institutions...政府開始對(duì)金融機(jī)構(gòu)進(jìn)行私有化。Eventually Sunderland Shipbuilders was denationalised.桑德蘭造船廠最終轉(zhuǎn)為了私營(yíng)。