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Privative vs Privatize - What's the difference?

privative | privatize |

As an adjective privative

is causing privation; depriving.

As a noun privative

is something that causes privation or indicates an absence.

As a verb privatize is

to release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.

privative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing privation; depriving.
  • Consisting in the absence of something; negative.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
  • (grammar) Indicating the absence of something.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that causes privation or indicates an absence.
    • ----

    privatize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * privatise (Commonwealth )

    Verb

    (privatiz)
  • To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.
  • (computing) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
  • * 1997 , David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop (page 184)
    • If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.

    Related terms

    * privatization

    Synonyms

    * denationalize

    Antonyms

    * nationalize