privatization
UK/ˌpɹaɪvɪtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n//ˌpɹaɪvətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
privatization noun: the transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
Noun
privatization (countable and uncountable, plural privatizations)
- The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
- Coordinate term: denationalization
- The party, moreover, facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires by its foremost members and collaborators through ‘privatization’ and other measures, thereby intensifying centralization of economic affairs and government in an increasingly narrow group that may for all...1943, Sidney Merlin, “Trends in German Economic Control Since 1933”, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, page 207
- The rendering of a thought or an idea, as private in scope.
- Questioning the privilege of biology went hand in hand with a challenge to the privatization of the family and the notion that parents own children and may therefore treat them however they choose.1988 February 14, Laurie Sherman, “All In A Day's Work”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 7
privatization meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
privatization in Hindi
- transfer from the government to private ownership
- निजीकरण nijīkraṇ
privatization in Tamil
- தனியார்மயம், தனியார்மயமாக்கம்
privatization in Marathi
- transfer from the government to private ownership
- खाजगीकरण khāj̈gīkaraṇ
privatization in Bengali
- বেসরকারিকরণ
More languagesFewer languages
- privatization in Malayalam
- സ്വകാര്യവത്കരണം svakāryavatkaraṇaṁ
- privatization in Kannada
- ಖಾಸಗೀಕರಣ
- privatization in Nepali
- निजीकरण
- privatization in Arabic
- خَصْخَصَة ḵaṣḵaṣa, خَوْصَصَة ḵawṣaṣa
- privatization in Malay
- penswastaan
- privatization in Persian
- خصوصیسازی xosusi-sâzi
- privatization in Vietnamese
- tư nhân hóa
Antonyms of privatization
Forms of privatization
| plural | privatizations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | privatisation |
Origin of privatization
Calque of German Privatisierung (with English -ation), derived from Latin prīvātus (“apart from the state; private”), with reference to post-First World War German economic principles. Popularized by Sidney Merlin in 1943, who was aware of the term reprivatization (used in similar contexts), already attested at the time.
Words formed from privatization
Questions about privatization
- What does privatization mean?
- Privatization means the transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
- What is privatization in Hindi?
- Privatization in Hindi is निजीकरण (nijīkraṇ). See Privatization meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is privatization?
- Privatization is a noun.
- How do you pronounce privatization?
- Privatization is pronounced /ˌpɹaɪvɪtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK).
- What is the plural of privatization?
- The plural of privatization is privatizations.
Words near privatization in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: privatization (page history and authors); privatization (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); privatization (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); privatization (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); privatization (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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