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Privatize - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a verb privatize

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

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.

    Synonyms

    * denationalize

    Antonyms

    * nationalize

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.