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corporatization

corporatization noun: the process of transforming state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.

Noun

corporatization (countable and uncountable, plural corporatizations)

  1. The process of transforming state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations
  2. The imposition of corporate values or practices; commercialization.
    • No question—the enterprise was guilty of poor wordplay and naked corporatisation.2023 September 19, Zoe Williams, “Corporation creep: why London’s Bond Street became Burberry Street - and caused outrage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of corporatization

pluralcorporatizations
alternative formcorporatisation

Origin of corporatization

From corporate + -ization.

Questions about corporatization

What does corporatization mean?
Corporatization means the process of transforming state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.
What part of speech is corporatization?
Corporatization is a noun.
What is the plural of corporatization?
The plural of corporatization is corporatizations.

Words near corporatization in the dictionary

  1. corporative
  2. corporativism
  3. corporativisms
  4. corporativist
  5. corporativists
  6. corporatization
  7. corporatizations
  8. corporatize
  9. corporatized
  10. corporatizes
  11. corporatizing

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