privatization
nounEtymology
Calque of German Privatisierung (with English -ation), derived from Latin prīvātus (“apart from the state; private”), with reference to post-First World War German economic principles. Popularized by Sidney Merlin in 1943, who was aware of the term reprivatization (used in similar contexts), already attested at the time.
- derived from prīvātus
Definitions
The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and…
The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
- Coordinate term: denationalization
The rendering of a thought or an idea, as private in scope.
- Questioning the privilege of biology went hand in hand with a challenge to the privatization of the family and the notion that parents own children and may therefore treat them however they choose.
The neighborhood
- antonymnationalization
- neighborprivatize
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for privatization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA