reprivatisation

Noun

reprivatization (plural reprivatizations)

1. The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.
   • ‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for...1936 August 1, The Economist