Meaning | change from governmental to private control or ownership. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Example | "The oil industry was privatized" |
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Synonym | privatise |
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Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
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industry, manufacture | The organized action of making of goods and services for sale |
Broader | denationalize, denationalise | put under private control or ownership |
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Spanish | privatizar |
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Catalan | privatitzar |
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Nouns | privatization | changing something from state to private ownership or control |
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