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re- +‎ privatize

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reprivatize (third-person singular simple present reprivatizes, present participle reprivatizing, simple past and past participle reprivatized)

  1. (economics) To privatize a company that was previously nationalized
    • 2009 March 1, Tyler Cowen, “Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly”, in New York Times[1]:
      Many analysts cite Swedish bank nationalization, from the early 1990s, as a model, because the Swedes later reprivatized these banks and resumed economic growth.

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