privatize

English

Alternative forms

• privatise (non-Oxford British English, Commonwealth)

Etymology

From private +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pri‧va‧tize

Verb

privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. (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.

3. (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.

Synonyms

• denationalize

Antonyms

• deprivatize
• nationalize

Derived terms

• privatization
• privatizer
• self-privatize

Translations

to release government control to private industry

• Arabic: خَصْخَصَ (ḵaṣḵaṣa)
• Armenian: սեփականաշնորհել (hy) (sepʻakanašnorhel)
• Asturian: privatizar
• Azerbaijani: özəlləşdirmək
• Belarusian: прыватызава́ць impf or pf (pryvatyzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: приватизи́рам impf or pf (privatizíram)
• Catalan: privatitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私有化 (zh) (sīyǒuhuà), 民營化／民营化 (zh) (mínyínghuà)

• Czech: privatizovat impf or pf
• Dutch: privatiseren (nl)
• Esperanto: privatigi
• Finnish: yksityistää (fi)
• French: privatiser (fr)
• Galician: privatizar
• German: privatisieren (de)
• Greek: αποκρατικοποιώ (el) (apokratikopoió)
• Hungarian: privatizál (hu), magánosít (hu)
• Italian: privatizzare (it)
• Japanese: 私営化する (shieika suru), 民営化する (ja) (min'eika suru)
• Korean: 민영화하다 (minyeonghwahada)
• Macedonian: приватизи́ра impf or pf (privatizíra)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: privatizar (oc)
• Polish: prywatyzować impf or pf
• Portuguese: privatizar (pt)
• Russian: приватизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (privatizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: privatizovať impf or pf, sprivatizovať pf
• Spanish: privatizar (es), piñatizar (Guatemala)
• Swedish: privatisera (sv)
• Turkish: özelleştirmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: приватизува́ти impf or pf (pryvatyzuváty)

Further reading

• “privatize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Galician

Verb

privatize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of privatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

privatize

1. inflection of privatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative