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/ˈprīvəˌtīz/,
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privatises, 3rd person singular present; privatised, past tense; privatised, past participle; privatizing, present participle; privatized, past participle; privatized, past tense; privatising, present participle; privatizes, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control
    • - a plan for privatizing education
  1. change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized"
  2. (privatization) denationalization: changing something from state to private ownership or control
  3. Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector (the state or government) to the private sector (businesses that operate for a private profit) or to private non-profit organizations. ...
  4. To release government control of a business or industry to private industry
  5. (Privatized) when a government run firm is sold to private investors and shares are made available to the public. See Asian Management, lecture 2
  6. (Privatization) Conversion of a state run company into a public company, often accompanied by a sale of its shares to the general public.
  7. (Privatization) The repurchasing of all of a company's outstanding stock by employees, private organization or a private investor. Private means that it is not owned by shareholders of a public company on an exchange. As a result of such an initiative, the company stops being publicly traded. ...
  8. (Privatization) The transfer of government-owned or government-run companies to the private sector, usually by selling them.
  9. (Privatization) The conversion of a government-owned enterprise to private ownership.
  10. Privatization is the contracting of public services or selling of public assets to private industry.
  11. (Privatization) government buying a service from a business instead of producing the service itself.
  12. The term privatization has generally been defined as any process aimed at shifting functions and responsibilities, in whole or in part, from the government to the private sector. ...
  13. (PRIVATIZATION) A transaction whereby the property of the Argentine state becomes the property of the Spanish state. Other examples (e.g. the property of the Canadian state becomes the property of the US state) may be substituted depending on circumstances.
  14. (PRIVATIZATION) Transferring educational policy-making and implementation from the public domain into the private or business arena where educational leaders become accountability to rich funders (such as the Carnegie, Ford, Danforth, Rockefeller, Spencer, and Annenberg Foundations), rather than ...
  15. (Privatization) Anti-social efforts by right-wingers to move the ultra-efficient administration of glorious government programmes to the depraved, greedy private sector. ...
  16. (Privatization) Etymological kin to “deprivation,” though any memory of why that might be – namely, that “privacy” was a prideful abstention from a life in common – is long gone. ...
  17. (Privatization) Government procedure to pursue a free-market economy for certain state-owned assets such as companies, operating monopolies, natural resources, etc., and make them available for new investments by invited private businesses which assume part or all of their ownership and management.
  18. (Privatization) Increased use of private sector in providing social benefits and services, such as greater reliance on occupational welfare or proprietary child care services or nursing homes. ...
  19. (Privatization) The policy of transferring publicly owned state concerns and industries to private sector ownership, mostly by the sale of shares. This process was started by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in 1979, but has been accepted by Tony Blair and New Labour. ...
  20. (Privatization) The practice of governmental entities contracting out public services rather than adding or retaining employees in the public sector.
  21. (Privatization) Transformation of an inexpensive, efficient government program into an inefficient bonanza for Replutocrat contractors. ...
  22. (Privatization) When work or services are moved from the non-profit sector to the for-profit sector.
  23. When a commons or other public service or asset becomes private property. (Similar to enclose, above) This has been a key plank of libertarian and right-wing political activists over the past 30 years, who have been successful at dismantling government services or handing them over to private ...
  24. v.: Corporate looting of the public treasury, the political version of Willie Sutton’s, I rob banks because “that’s where the money is.” See Free Market. See also Paul Ryan’s Vouchercare aka Medikill. Synonym: Throw Grandma To the Wolves and then Under the Bus.
  25. Turn publicly-owned materials and services over to profit-making entitites.