privatize
verb/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/
/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/
(British English also privatise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they privatize | /ˈpraɪvətaɪz/ /ˈpraɪvətaɪz/ |
| he / she / it privatizes | /ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪz/ /ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple privatized | /ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ /ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ |
| past participle privatized | /ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ /ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ |
| -ing form privatizing | /ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪŋ/ |
- privatize something to sell a business or an industry so that it is no longer owned by the government synonym denationalize
- Air traffic control has been privatized.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrivatize is used with these nouns as the object:- enterprise
- health service
- industry
- …
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