[
US
/ˈpɹɪvəˌtaɪz/
]
VERB
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change from governmental to private control or ownership
The oil industry was privatized
How To Use privatize In A Sentence
- It will deliver the promises made in the citizens charter to extend the powers of the four regulators of the privatised utilities.
- And now this move to privatize prisons was sure to usurp whatever power she had remaining. INSIDERS
- A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.
- A New FAIR survey (Fairness In Accuracy and Reporting) reveals that the America publicprefers asingle-payer national healthcare system 59% - to-32% over a privatized system. Single Payer Health Insurance / Still Ignored By Main Steam Press
- The best fishermen returned for a second year in a row without their usual haul of cod and haddock, so the Icelandic government took radical action: they privatized the fish.
- Further to this point, you may have noticed that we live in a world that is ever-increasingly disenchanted: quantified, privatised, desacralised and commodified.
- The company was privatised with a fanfare of publicity.
- We discussed different issues: not paying the external debt anymore, re-nationalizing the privatized industries, nationalizing the banks and the international trade.
- They are on the boards of banks and industrial firms and privatised service providers and many more.
- Australian libertarianism (not just libertinism) found its feet during those many long hours of arguing whether the tote should be privatized.