Nationalized vs Reprivatize - What's the difference?
nationalized | reprivatize |
(nationalize)
(rare) To make into, or to become, a nation.
* 1910 , History for Ready Reference from the Best Historians , page 316:
To bring a private company under the control of a specific government.
To bring a concept such as a political issue or commercial campaign to the attention of the entire country.
(archaic) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
(economics) To privatize a company that was previously nationalized
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Tyler Cowen, title=Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly, work=New York Times
, passage=Many analysts cite Swedish bank nationalization, from the early 1990s, as a model, because the Swedes later reprivatized these banks and resumed economic growth.}}
As verbs the difference between nationalized and reprivatize
is that nationalized is (nationalize) while reprivatize is (economics) to privatize a company that was previously nationalized.nationalized
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Verb
(head)nationalize
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(wikipedia nationalize)Alternative forms
* nationalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Probably no Hindu who could make intelligent use of political freedom ever dreams of the present possibility of a nationalized India,
Derived terms
* (l)Antonyms
* (l)reprivatize
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* (l)Verb
(reprivatiz)citation
