Past tense of privatize

Forms of privatize

Privatized in a sentence

• 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
• In a privatized world, government becomes “diffuse, unstable, unpredictable,” and the skein of responsibility more and more attenuated.2025 June 3, Cullen Murphy, “Feudalism Is Our Future: What the next Dark Ages could look like”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sub
• The triumph of the Spockian dictum of a privatized child-rearing world, shorn of political concerns, may, in part, explain the vehemence with which Dr.1988, Nancy Pottishman Weiss, “Mother, the Invention of Necessity: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, in N. Ray Hiner, Joseph M. Hawes…. From the entry Spockian
• According to one recent audit reported in The Washington Post, among 49 privatized contracts, three out of five were awarded noncompetitively, lacked oversight, and raised questions of legality.2007 January 16, “Tracking Outsourced Bonanzas”, in New York Times. From the entry noncompetitively
• Spener thought it should have been considered an adiaphora, or at worst, a moderate institution of spiritual life; Loescher thought its privatized nature competed directly with public and corporate worship.2008 May, Timothy M. Salo, An Orthodox Lutheran View of Ecclesiology: A Doctrinal and Practical Exchange between Valentin Ernst Loescher…. From the entry adiaphora

Meaning of privatize

1. verb To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. verb To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
3. verb To render a thought or an idea, private in scope.

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Questions about the past tense of privatize

What is the past tense of privatize?

The past tense of privatize is privatized.

What is the past participle of privatize?

The past participle of privatize is privatized.

Is privatize a regular or irregular verb?

Privatize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.