Verb

(head)

(privatize)

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.

Verb

(head)

(privatise)

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Verb

(privatis)

(chiefly, British spelling)

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised , the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}