privatize

privatize

English

Alternative forms

• privatise (non-Oxford British English, Commonwealth)

Etymology

private +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/
• Hyphenation: pri‧va‧tize

Verb

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 make (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.

Synonyms

• denationalize

Antonyms

• nationalize

Derived terms

• privatization
• privatizer

Translations

to release government control to private industry

Arabic: خَصْخَصَ‎ (ḵaṣḵaṣa) Armenian: սեփականաշնորհել (hy) (sepʿakanašnorhel) Asturian: privatizar Azerbaijani: özəlləşdirmək Belarusian: прыватызава́ць impf or pf (pryvatyzavácʹ) Bulgarian: приватизи́рам impf or pf (privatizíram) Catalan: privatitzar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 私有化 (zh) (sīyǒuhuà), 民營化／民营化 (zh) (mínyínghuà) Czech: privatizovat impf or pf Dutch: privatiseren (nl) Esperanto: privatigi Finnish: yksityistää (fi) French: privatiser (fr) Galician: privatizar German: privatisieren (de) Greek: αποκρατικοποιώ (el) (apokratikopoió) Hungarian: privatizál (hu), magánosít (hu) Italian: privatizzare (it) Japanese: 民営化する (みんえいかする, min'eika suru) Korean: 민영화하다 (minyeonghwahada) Macedonian: приватизи́ра impf or pf (privatizíra) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Occitan: privatizar Polish: prywatyzować impf or pf Portuguese: privatizar (pt) Russian: приватизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (privatizírovatʹ) Slovak: privatizovať impf or pf, sprivatizovať pf Spanish: privatizar (es) Swedish: privatisera (sv) Turkish: özelleştirmek (tr) Ukrainian: приватизува́ти impf or pf (pryvatyzuváty)

Further reading

• “privatize” in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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Portuguese

Verb

privatize

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