reprivatization

reprivatization

English

Alternative forms

• reprivatisation
• re-privatisation
• re-privatization

Etymology

From re- +‎ privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly a calque of German Reprivatisierung (“reprivatization”).[1]

Noun

reprivatization (plural reprivatizations)

1. (economics) The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.

   Hypernyms: denationalization, privatization

   • 1936 August 1, The Economist:

     ‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for complete ‘re-privatisation.’

   • 2009 March 8, Alan S. Blinder, “Nationalize? Hey, Not So Fast”, in New York Times‎:

     POLITICAL OBSTACLES The process of nationalization and reprivatization went amazingly well in Sweden partly because it was remarkably free of political interference.

Related terms

• reprivatize

Translations

returning to private ownership

Dutch: reprivatisering f German: Reprivatisierung (de) f Hungarian: reprivatizáció Icelandic: endureinkavæðing f Polish: reprywatyzacja (pl) f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: реприватиза́ција f Roman: reprivatizácija f

References

1. Bel, Germà (2006), “Retrospectives: The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party”, in Journal of Economic Perspectives‎, volume 20, issue 3, DOI:10.1257/jep.20.3.187, pages 187–194