Meanings
present singular third person privatizes · participle present privatizing · participle past privatized · past privatized · alternative privatise
- BritishEnglishOxfordUSeconomicsTo release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
Synonyms: denationalize · Antonyms: deprivatize, nationalize
- BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitivecomputingTo render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
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.
1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
More synonyms by meaning
verbchange from governmental to private control or ownership
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Italic*prei
- Proto-Italic*preiwos
- Latinprīvus
- Latinprīvō
- Latinprīvātus
- Middle Englishprivat(e)
- Englishprivate
- Englishprivatize
Translations
Arabic خَصْخَصَ
- خَصْخَصَ (ḵaṣḵaṣa)to release government control to private industry
Bulgarian приватизи́рам
- приватизи́рам (privatizíram)to release government control to private industry
Catalan privatitzar
- privatitzarto release government control to private industry
Chinese Mandarin 私有化, 民營化 /民营化
- 私有化 (sīyǒuhuà)to release government control to private industry
- 民營化 /民营化 (mínyínghuà)to release government control to private industry
Czech privatizovat
- privatizovatto release government control to private industry
Dutch privatiseren
- privatiserento release government control to private industry
Esperanto privatigi
- privatigito release government control to private industry
Finnish yksityistää
- yksityistääto release government control to private industry
French privatiser
- privatiserto release government control to private industry
German privatisieren
- privatisierento release government control to private industry
Greek αποκρατικοποιώ
- αποκρατικοποιώ (apokratikopoió)to release government control to private industry
Hungarian privatizál, magánosít
- privatizálto release government control to private industry
- magánosítto release government control to private industry
Italian privatizzare
- privatizzareto release government control to private industry
Japanese 私営化する, 民営化する
- 私営化する (shieika suru)to release government control to private industry
- 民営化する (min'eika suru)to release government control to private industry
Korean 민영화하다
- 민영화하다 (minyeonghwahada)to release government control to private industry
Malay menswastakan
- menswastakanto release government control to private industry
Polish prywatyzować, sprywatyzować
- prywatyzowaćto release government control to private industry
- sprywatyzowaćto release government control to private industry
Portuguese privatizar
- privatizarto release government control to private industry
Russian приватизи́ровать
- приватизи́ровать (privatizírovatʹ)to release government control to private industry
Slovak privatizovať, sprivatizovať
- privatizovaťto release government control to private industry
- sprivatizovaťto release government control to private industry
Spanish privatizar, piñatizar
- privatizarto release government control to private industry
- piñatizarto release government control to private industry
Swedish privatisera
- privatiserato release government control to private industry
Turkish özelleştirmek
- özelleştirmekto release government control to private industry
Ukrainian приватизува́ти
- приватизува́ти (pryvatyzuváty)to release government control to private industry
Vietnamese tư nhân hoá
- tư nhân hoáto release government control to private industry
Cite this entry
privatize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privatize
“privatize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privatize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “privatize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privatize.
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