reprivatization
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English
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Etymology
From re- + privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly a calque of German Reprivatisierung (“reprivatization”).[1]
Noun
reprivatization (plural reprivatizations)
- (economics) The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.
- Hypernyms: denationalization, privatization
- 1936 August 1, The Economist:
- ‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for complete ‘re-privatisation.’
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Translations
returning to private ownership
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References
- ^ Bel, Germà (2006) “Retrospectives: The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party”, in Journal of Economic Perspectives, volume 20, number 3, , pages 187–194