privatizer
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- noun
- /ˈpraɪvəˌtaɪzər/
- Many citizens opposed the privatizer's actions, fearing a loss of public accountability in essential services.
Examples
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This is the privatizers' central argument.
Academic text (2000) -
The ultimate question is whether the way to repair a struggling school is to attack its teachers and attempt to turn it over to corporate privatizers.
Blog text (28) -
If every state had advocates as dedicated as Feinberg, we could turn this nation's education policies around to serve the interests of children, not entrepreneurs, politicians, and privatizers.
Blog text (26) -
Defeating privatization would not only preserve social security and Medicare but also open the door to a "society for all ages." Conversely, victory for the privatizers could throw us back a generation.
Academic text (2000) -
Britain's prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who may be regarded as the most fervent privatizer of the 1980s, has presided over some two dozen privatizations in the past decade, most of which were carried out by public offerings of shares of state companies.
Academic text (1990) -
The privatizer implemented a plan to transfer control of the city's water supply to a private company.
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As a leading privatizer, she advocated for selling off public housing to improve management and maintenance.
Antonyms
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Privatizer comes from the word private, which means 'not public', plus the verb ending -ize and the agent -er. So a privatizer is someone who makes things private or moves public services into private hands.