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privatize Definition

pri·va·tize (prīvə tīz′)

transitive verb -·tized′, -·tiz′·ing

to make or hold private; specif., to turn over (a public property, service, etc.) to private interests

privatize Related Forms
pri′·va·ti·za·tion noun
privatize Telecom Definition
To transfer ownership of a public utility from the government to private interests. See also liberalize, nationalize, and utility.
privatize Usage Examples

Object

  • water: When it was privatized, water metering was recognized and encouraged as part of the answer.
  • company: Out of the 27 state capitals, 25 are served by public companies and 2 by partially privatized companies.
  • service: Martin's years of starving our once proud health care system are still ricocheting as provincial governments dismantle and privatize such services.
  • oil: Also, the major oil companies made it very clear that privatizing Iraqi oil would not be acceptable.
  • resource: The Bush administration's project was not, as is sometimes said, to purely and simply privatize Iraqi oil resources.
  • system: Beside cutting taxes, the Dzurinda government brought the free market to health care and partly privatized the social security system.

Adjective complement

  • most: Thursday 8 th September Cuba in the 1990s privatized most of its farms.

Modifying Another Word

  • partially: Out of the 27 state capitals, 25 are served by public companies and 2 by partially privatized companies.
  • newly: Employees in newly privatized businesses benefit from improved pay, conditions and career opportunities.
  • fully: It also fully privatized the safety reviews for several categories of medical devices.
  • recently: The UK's railways, recently privatized, are now split into over 20 different networks.
  • partly: Beside cutting taxes, the Dzurinda government brought the free market to health care and partly privatized the social security system.
  • even: Meanwhile, they are even privatizing the drinking water, while the police are everywhere.
privatize Quotes

What we've doneinthis country inthepast fewdecades is socialize the cost of growing old and privatize the cost of childhood.

—Hewlett, Sylvia Ann