privatize

• privatise (non-Oxford British English, Commonwealth)

From private + -ize.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: pri‧va‧tize

privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. (computing, transitive) To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
   • 1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184:

     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.

3. (transitive, uncommon) To render a thought or an idea, private in scope.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 129:

     The neoliberal, privatizing version of health in which everyone is responsible for themselves, despite disparities in resources.

• denationalize

• deprivatize
• nationalize

• “privatize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

privatize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of privatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

privatize

1. inflection of privatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative