"privatization" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: privatizations [plural]
Etymology: Coined by Sidney Merlin in 1943, who was aware of the term reprivatization, already attested at the time. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} privatization (countable and uncountable, plural privatizations)
  1. The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (transfer from the government to private ownership): خَصْخَصَة (ḵaṣḵaṣa) [feminine] (Arabic), خَوْصَصَة (ḵawṣaṣa) [feminine] (Arabic), սեփականաշնորհում (sepʻakanašnorhum) (Armenian), մասնավորեցում (masnavorecʻum) (Armenian), privatización [feminine] (Asturian), özəlləşdirmə (Azerbaijani), прыватыза́цыя (pryvatyzácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), приватиза́ция (privatizácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), privatització [feminine] (Catalan), 私有化 (sīyǒuhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 民營化 (Chinese Mandarin), 民营化 (mínyínghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), privatizace [feminine] (Czech), privatisering [feminine] (Dutch), erastamine (Estonian), yksityistäminen (Finnish), privatisation [feminine] (French), privatización [feminine] (Galician), პრივატიზება (ṗrivaṭizeba) (Georgian), Privatisierung [feminine] (German), ιδιωτικοποίηση (idiotikopoíisi) (Greek), הפרטה (hafratá) (Hebrew), निजीकरण (nijīkraṇ) [masculine] (Hindi), privatizáció (Hungarian), einkavæðing [feminine] (Icelandic), privatizzazione [feminine] (Italian), 私営化 (shieika) (Japanese), 民営化 (min'eika) (Japanese), жекешелендіру (jekeşelendıru) (Kazakh), 민영화 (minyeonghwa) (alt: 民營化) (Korean), privatizācija [feminine] (Latvian), privatizacija [feminine] (Lithuanian), приватизација (privatizacija) [feminine] (Macedonian), സ്വകാര്യവത്കരണം (svakāryavatkaraṇaṁ) (Malayalam), खाजगीकरण (khāj̈gīkaraṇ) [neuter] (Marathi), privatizacion [feminine] (Occitan), خصوصیسازی (xosusi-sâzi) (Persian), prywatyzacja [feminine] (Polish), privatização [feminine] (Portuguese), privatizare [feminine] (Romanian), приватиза́ция (privatizácija) [feminine] (Russian), приватиза́ција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), privatizácija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), privatizácia [feminine] (Slovak), privatizacija [feminine] (Slovene), privatización [feminine] (Spanish), ubinafsishaji (Swahili), privatisering [common-gender] (Swedish), özelleştirme (Turkish), приватиза́ція (pryvatyzácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), privatizatsiya (Uzbek), tư nhân hóa (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-privatization-en-noun-T-pFKWPL Disambiguation of 'transfer from the government to private ownership': 91 9
  2. (uncommon) The rendering of a thought or an idea, as private in scope. Tags: countable, uncommon, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: privatisation Derived forms: self-privatization Related terms: privatize

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Alternative forms

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      "word": "yksityistäminen"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "word": "einkavæðing"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
      "word": "സ്വകാര്യവത്കരണം"
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      "code": "mr",
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "word": "prywatyzacja"
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "privatização"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
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      "word": "privatizare"
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      "word": "приватиза́ция"
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "sw",
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      "word": "ubinafsishaji"
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      "word": "özelleştirme"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "pryvatyzácija",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "приватиза́ція"
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      "code": "uz",
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      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
      "word": "privatizatsiya"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "transfer from the government to private ownership",
      "word": "tư nhân hóa"
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}

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