Dictionary

privatize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English private Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English privatize From private + -ize.

Meanings

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
   • If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop. 1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184:
3. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive, uncommon) To render a thought or an idea, private in scope.
   • The neoliberal, privatizing version of health in which everyone is responsible for themselves, despite disparities in resources. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 129:

Forms

Antonyms

deprivatize · nationalize

Deriveds

semiprivatized · self-privatize · privatization · privatizer · unprivatize · privatizable · reprivatize

Synonyms

denationalize

Translations (39)

ja 民営化する (to release government control to private industry) · ru приватизи́ровать (to release government control to private industry) · it privatizzare (to release government control to private industry) · fr privatiser (to release government control to private industry) · mk приватизи́ра (to release government control to private industry) · el αποκρατικοποιώ (to release government control to private industry) · sk privatizovať (to release government control to private industry) · vi tư nhân hoá (to release government control to private industry) · az özəlləşdirmək (to release government control to private industry) · es privatizar (to release government control to private industry) · hu privatizál (to release government control to private industry) · nl privatiseren (to release government control to private industry) · ja 私営化する (to release government control to private industry) · ko 민영화하다 (to release government control to private industry) · ast privatizar (to release government control to private industry) · gl privatizar (to release government control to private industry) · hy սեփականաշնորհել (to release government control to private industry) · tr özelleştirmek (to release government control to private industry) · es piñatizar (to release government control to private industry) · pt privatizar (to release government control to private industry) · ca privatitzar (to release government control to private industry) · uk приватизува́ти (to release government control to private industry) · oc privatizar (to release government control to private industry) · cmn 私有化 (to release government control to private industry) · pl prywatyzować (to release government control to private industry) · fi yksityistää (to release government control to private industry) · ms menswastakan (to release government control to private industry) · ar خَصْخَصَ (to release government control to private industry) · cmn 民營化 /民营化 (to release government control to private industry) · de privatisieren (to release government control to private industry) · be прыватызава́ць (to release government control to private industry) · hu magánosít (to release government control to private industry) · eo privatigi (to release government control to private industry) · cs privatizovat (to release government control to private industry) · mn хувьчлах (to release government control to private industry) · pl sprywatyzować (to release government control to private industry) · sv privatisera (to release government control to private industry) · sk sprivatizovať (to release government control to private industry) · bg приватизи́рам (to release government control to private industry)