Dictionary

privatisation en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English private English -ise English privatise Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English privatisation From privatise + -ation.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of privatization.
   alt of privatization
   • Some people have argued that it is our membership of the European Union which helped create the messy privatisation and everything that ensued. However, this is not the case. As mentioned above, it was the Conservative government which devised the complex structure of privatisation that emphasised the separation far beyond what was needed to follow EU rules. 2019 October 23, Christian Wolmar, “It's not the EU's fault that privatisation has broken down”, in Rail, page 49:

Forms

Deriveds

reprivatisation