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Privatize vs Privatized - What's the difference?

privatize | privatized |

As verbs the difference between privatize and privatized

is that privatize is to release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry while privatized is past tense of privatize.

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

    privatized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (privatize)

  • 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