"privatise" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 7:",
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