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corporatize

corporatize verb: to transform state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.

Verb

corporatize (third-person singular simple present corporatizes, present participle corporatizing, simple past and past participle corporatized)

  1. To transform state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.
  2. To impose corporate values or practices; to commercialize.

Forms of corporatize

third-person singular presentcorporatizes
present participlecorporatizing
past participlecorporatized
pastcorporatized

Origin of corporatize

From corporate + -ize.

Words formed from corporatize

Questions about corporatize

What does corporatize mean?
Corporatize means to transform state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.
What part of speech is corporatize?
Corporatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of corporatize?
The past tense of corporatize is corporatized.

Words near corporatize in the dictionary

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

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