Word.ws English Dictionary

demutualize

demutualize verb: to change from mutual ownership to ownership via stocks or shares.

Verb

demutualize (third-person singular simple present demutualizes, present participle demutualizing, simple past and past participle demutualized)

  1. (especially a building society) To change from mutual ownership to ownership via stocks or shares.

Forms of demutualize

third-person singular presentdemutualizes
present participledemutualizing
past participledemutualized
pastdemutualized

Origin of demutualize

From de- + mutualize.

Questions about demutualize

What does demutualize mean?
Demutualize means to change from mutual ownership to ownership via stocks or shares.
What part of speech is demutualize?
Demutualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of demutualize?
The past tense of demutualize is demutualized.

Words near demutualize in the dictionary

  1. demutualised
  2. demutualises
  3. demutualising
  4. demutualization
  5. demutualizations
  6. demutualize
  7. demutualized
  8. demutualizes
  9. demutualizing
  10. demux
  11. demuxed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: demutualize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “demutualize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/demutualize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.