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English
Etymology
From private + -ise.
Verb
privatise (third-person singular simple present privatises, present participle privatising, simple past and past participle privatised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of privatize.
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 7:A senior rail source said: "Frankly, no one believes being on the government books is temporary. The only bits of the railway still genuinely privatised are the freight trains and the rolling stock owners.
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privatise
- inflection of privatiser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative