Privatize vs Reprivatize - What's the difference?
privatize | reprivatize |
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)
(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 privatize and reprivatize
is that privatize is to release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry while reprivatize is (economics) to privatize a company that was previously nationalized.privatize
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Alternative forms
* privatise (Commonwealth )Verb
(privatiz)- 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
* denationalizeAntonyms
* nationalizereprivatize
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* (l)Verb
(reprivatiz)citation