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Privatize vs Renationalization - What's the difference?

privatize | renationalization |

As a verb privatize

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

As a noun renationalization is

a nationalization of something which had previously been nationalized and then privatized.

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

    renationalization

    English

    Alternative forms

    *renationalisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A nationalization of something which had previously been nationalized and then privatized.