Crossword clues for privatize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1968, from private (adj.) + -ize. Related: Privatized; privatizing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry. 2 (context computing transitive English) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope. vb. 1 To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry. 2 (context computing transitive English) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
WordNet
v. change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized" [syn: privatise]
Usage examples of "privatize".
And that is the true wisdom of the deregulated marketplace in electricity: the brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses socialized.
Despite everything, Freud still subscribes to the relentless project, of privatizing the inner self and objectifying the outside world, that has obsessed Western culture at least since Descartes.
School Vouchers, Welfare Reform, the Flat Tax, Quality of Life Crimes, Privatizing Social Security, Videotaping Criminal Confessions, the Strategic Defense Initiative, Pollution Tax Credits, Enterprise Zones, and Winning the Cold War.
The baksheesh flowed and power systems were privatized from Brazil to Pakistan.
Guy looked down through the tempest, through the privatized prisms: yes, the bodybuilder was back.
Throughout the 1980s, Ozal privatized state companies, liberalized banking, allowed for free and floating exchange rates, and used the bully pulpit to champion the small-time entrepreneur.
According to Stiglitz, the privatized USEC proved inefficient at enriching uranium, but exceptionally efficient at enriching several Clinton associates.
Just to ensure everyone appreciated the gravity of the situation, the disinformation specialist Reg Dafoe started the rumor that the Meals On Wheels and home care services were going to be privatized, with the bidding system already rigged to let the contracts to the Witnesses for higher fees and poorer services.
In Bosnia, these efforts included modernizing agriculture, reviving and reforming education, restoring health care (including by rebuilding hospitals and modernizing equipment and practices), repairing infrastructure, building and repairing housing, restoring sanitation and sewage services, restructuring and reforming the police force, establishing the rule of law, training lawyers and judges, building political parties, promoting transparency and accountability in governance, restoring and modernizing the energy sector, promoting the adoption of international standards of accounting, developing a regulatory banking system, privatizing industry, creating capital markets for investment, providing loans for the start-up of new companies, and building an independent media and other political institutions.
But on the spectrum we have a relatively privatized health system.
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.