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privatized

vb. (en-past of: privatize)

Usage examples of "privatized".

And that is the true wisdom of the deregulated marketplace in electricity: the brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses socialized.

The baksheesh flowed and power systems were privatized from Brazil to Pakistan.

According to Stiglitz, the privatized USEC proved inefficient at enriching uranium, but exceptionally efficient at enriching several Clinton associates.

No other state, either before or since, has privatized this key step in the elimination of citizens’ civil rights.

Under the spell of their theories, the general abolished the minimum wage, outlawed trade union bargaining rights, privatized the pension system, abolished all taxes on wealth and on business profits, slashed public employment, privatized 212 state industries and 66 banks and ran a fiscal surplus.

The federal government privatized Rio Light, selling it to Electricite de France and Reliant of Houston, Texas.

Wackenhut has become the leading operator of choice in the globalization of privatized punishment based on its stellar experience in the US.

They'll also pull a little bonus for doing this, of course, since it's one of the genuinely unpleasant jobs-no coercion of anyone but prisoners in the privatized penal system.

You'll be more use to Society as ram-plugged hydroponic fertilizer than you ever were as a mouth to feed in an expensive privatized cell.

They'll also pull a little bonus for doing this, of course, since it's one of the genuinely unpleasant jobs—no coercion of anyone but prisoners in the privatized penal system.

They'll also pull a little bonus for doing this, of course, since it's one of the genuinely unpleasant jobs—no coercion of anyone but prisoners in the privatized penal system.

They should never have privatized the fucking military, because all that accomplished in the end was to militarize the entire private sector.