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Definition: Privatize |
PrivatizeVerb1. 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: PrivatizeSynonym: privatise (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: privatise (public administration, economics). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In 1998, CAA announced its decision to privatize two cargo terminals at CKS International Airport. (references) | |
The province intends to privatize part of the water distribution system and add new service areas for irrigation. (references) | ||
The process that Egypt has undertaken since 1991 to privatize 314 public sector companies should also increase demand for IT products. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Zambia | During its 1991 campaign, the MMD promised to privatize the government-owned media. (references) |
Economic History | Italy | Treasury also plans to privatize a second tranche of the state electricity giant, ENEL, as soon as the stock market conditions improve. (references) |
Ecuador | Ecuador has begun efforts to privatize its mostly state-owned electricity sector. (references) | |
Political Economy | Albania | Despite its name, the Socialist Party has recently spearheaded the drive to privatize state-owned industries and has pursued a policy of economic liberalism in strong cooperation with the IMF. (references) |
SWEDEN | The social democratic government at the end of the 1980s and the conservative coalition government at the beginning of the 1990s deregulated the credit market; removed foreign exchange controls; reformed taxes; lifted foreign investment barriers; and began to privatize government-owned corporations. (references) | |
Benin | The Kerekou administration has maintained the austerity program; continued to privatize state-owned enterprises; reduced fiscal expenditures; and deregulated trade. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | The GOP has also announced its plans to privatize Habib Bank, the country's largest commercial bank in terms of assets. (references) |
Pakistan | In December 1990, the GOP announced plans to privatize state-owned banks and to allow the establishment of private domestic banks. (references) | |
Ukraine | USAID has helped develop a multi-faceted energy program for Ukraine which focuses on: 1) power sector restructuring, which has helped transform the power sector from a vertically integrated monopoly to a market system with regulatory oversight of tariffs and licensing, and power distribution based on financial bids; 2) assisting the government of Ukraine to privatize the power sector, starting with 27 distribution companies; 3) development of a coal bed methane industry; 4) improving energy production and conservation by introducing new technologies, management techniques and applying market principles; and 5) indirectly supporting Ukraine's nuclear safety performance and improving nuclear sector regulation and inspection. (references) | |
Worker Rights | El Salvador | The airport union charged that the semiautonomous port authority (CEPA) targeted union members to break the union and privatize some of CEPA's functions. (references) |
Mexico | Most FAT members sympathize with the PRD, but the FAT is independent and not formally tied to the PRD. In 1997 160 labor organizations representing workers in the private and public sectors, led by the telephone workers and social security workers unions, formed the National Union of Workers (UNT)--a labor central in competition with the officially recognized CT. In 1999 the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) announced that it would withdraw from the CT over its failure to give full support to the SME's opposition to the Government's plan to privatize partially the electric power sector. (references) | |
Gabon | In June and September, employees of the Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT), the state-owned post and telecommunications company, went on strike for higher pay and to protest plans to split and partially privatize the company. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Elizabeth Dole | Let me tell you where I am on this. First of all, I am certainly not talking about privatizing Social Security. I don't think anyone is saying privatize the system. |
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| "Privatize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 89.23% of the time. "Privatize" is used about 65 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) | 89.23% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.77% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
privatize social security | 3 |
administration aeronautics national privatize space | 2 |
national park privatize service | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "privatize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 私有化 (privatise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | privatisieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | privatizál (denationalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | privatizzare (privatise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivatizepray privatizar. (various references) приватизировать. (various references) privatizar (hive off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "privatize": privatized, privatizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "privatize": reprivatize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "privatize": reprivatized, reprivatizes. (additional references) | |
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"Privatize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: primatize, privatae, privatise, privatizer, privitize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "privatize" (pronounced pri"vutī'z) |
| 4 | -u t ī' z | alphabetize, democratize, deputize, desensitize, digitize, dramatize, hypnotize, prioritize, proselytize, sanitize, securitize, sensitize, stigmatize, traumatize. |
| 3 | -t ī' z | advertise, amortize, neckties. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-t-v-z" | |
-1 letter: trapezii, vizirate. | |
-2 letters: private. | |
-3 letters: patzer, pirate, pitier, privet, trivia, vizier. | |
-4 letters: aiver, apter, atrip, avert, irate, parve, pater, paver, peart, pieta, prate, prize, retia, rivet, taper, tapir, terai, trave, tripe, viper, vitae, vizir, zaire. | |
-5 letters: airt, aper, aver, izar, pair, pare, part, pate, pave, pear, peat, peri, pert, pier, pita, prat, prez, rape, rapt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-t-v-z" | |
+1 letter: privatized, privatizes. | |
+2 letters: reprivatize. | |
+3 letters: reprivatized, reprivatizes. | |
+4 letters: pulverization, reprivatizing. | |
+5 letters: overcapitalize, pulverizations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 76 61 74 69 7A 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 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i v a t i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475886786759271 |
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