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Definition: Privatise |
PrivatiseVerb1. Change (industry or business) from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | To alter the status of(as a business or industry)from public to private control ownership. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PrivatiseSynonym: privatize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: privatize (public administration, economics). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | SADC member states have committed themselves to economic development and growth and embrace the role that the private sector can play. There is a commitment to privatise many of the state enterprises and liberalise the markets in order to create more competition and business opportunities for international companies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Privatise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.52% of the time. "Privatise" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 95.52% | 128 | 28,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "privatise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 私有化 (privatize). (various references) | ||||
Italian | privatizzare (privatize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ivatisepray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "privatise": privatised, privatises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: parities, privates, priviest. | |
-2 letters: airiest, parties, parvise, pastier, paviser, piaster, piastre, pirates, pitiers, private, privets, privies, revisit, spaviet, tipsier, traipse, vastier, veritas, visiter. | |
-3 letters: airest, aivers, aspire, averts, esprit, paries, parvis, paster, pastie, paters, pavers, pavise, petsai, pietas, pirate, pitier, pities, praise, prates, priest, privet, rapist, repast, ripest, rivets, satire, spavie, spirea, spirit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: ascriptive, privatised, privatises, privatives, privatizes. | |
+2 letters: depravities, imperatives, semiprivate. | |
+3 letters: deprivations, reprivatizes, vespertilian, viviparities. | |
+4 letters: improvisatore, superactivity, vituperations. | |
+5 letters: absorptivities, contrapositive, imperativeness, improvisatores, overcapacities, preservability, prevarications, pulverizations, supergravities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 76 61 74 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. ...- .- - .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i v a t i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475886786758571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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