PRIVATIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does privatize mean? 

• PRIVATIZE (verb)
  The verb PRIVATIZE has 1 sense:

1. change from governmental to private control or ownership

  Familiarity information: PRIVATIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIVATIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they privatize    ... he / she / it privatizes   
Past simple: privatized   
Past participle: privatized   
-ing form: privatizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from governmental to private control or ownership

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

privatise; privatize

Context example:

The oil industry was privatized

Hypernyms (to "privatize" is one way to...):

denationalise; denationalize (put under private control or ownership)

Domain category:

industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

privatization (changing something from state to private ownership or control)