privatize

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Etymology

private +‎ -ize

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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.

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  • “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
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