to privatize
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- verb
- /ˈpraɪvəˌtaɪz/
- US
:
privatizar
- Many state-owned companies are looking to privatize their operations in the coming years.
- to privatize enterprises
- to privatize state enterprises
- to privatize companies
When these huge monopolies were privatized, they weren't broken up.
- When these huge monopolies were privatized, they weren't broken up.
- You know, that's, that's, as Ken Griffin puts it, privatizing gains but socializing losses.
- We, we to, to A, to great extent, we privatize profits and we socialize losses.
- So we have privatized media or, or we've privatized news.
- What is the problem with privatizing the VA?
- So there is there's a sense that we should be looking everywhere we can to privatize what government does.
- The Republicans have consistently campaigned that they want to privatize Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
- Net neutrality was repealed, meaning Internet service providers now have more opportunities to privatize aspects of the Internet.
- And then the system of oppression about like, you know, the privatizing our jails and then states guarantee to keep these jails full.
- Especially when they took Nash off of it and they privatized space travel just.
Examples
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They've said let's privatize, let's change the whole system.
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In Poland, the present government has been keen on privatizing along the "classical" British lines.
Academic text (1991) -
We will never let the Republicans cut or privatize Social Security.
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How long would it take to privatize the entire Soviet economy in the same manner?
Academic text (1991) -
The government just proposed to privatize daycare.
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The government has also announced plans for privatizing banks and establishing a stock market.
Academic text (1992) -
At the same time, the government privatized Iceland's three largest banks.
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Early in 1991, President Fernando Collor released plans to privatize almost 200 state-owned companies.
Academic text (1999) -
PDVSA's journey from an entirely state-owned enterprise to a partially privatized one is, in many ways, unique.
Academic text (1999) -
The government decided to privatize the transportation service to improve efficiency.
Synonyms
To move a business or service from government control to private owners
Antonyms
How Privatized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Privatize comes from private, which comes from an old Latin word meaning 'personal' or 'separate', and the ending -ize means 'make'. So to privatize something is to make it 'private' — to move it from government or public control into private hands.