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verb
Change from governmental to private control or ownership:— The oil industry was privatized.
synonym: privatise.
is a specific kind of: denationalise, denationalize.
domain category: industry, manufacture | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise.
derivation: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization.
Dutch: privatiseren
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