privatize
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/
- Hyphenation: pri‧va‧tize
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privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
- (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.
- (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.
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to release government control to private industry
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- “privatize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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privatize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of privatizar:
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privatize
- inflection of privatizar: