Word.ws English Dictionary

reprivatized

reprivatized is the simple past and past participle of reprivatize.

Meaning of reprivatize

Verb

reprivatize (third-person singular simple present reprivatizes, present participle reprivatizing, simple past and past participle reprivatized)

  1. (transitive) To make something private again.
    • At a time when our communities are being increasingly attacked, when sexuality is being forcefully "reprivatized" (or at least hidden from view) […]1988 December 4, Scott Bravmann, “Lesbian/Gay Visibility (Or T-Shirt Terrorism)”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 5
    1. (transitive) To privatize a company that was previously nationalized
      • Many analysts cite Swedish bank nationalization, from the early 1990s, as a model, because the Swedes later reprivatized these banks and resumed economic growth.2009 March 1, Tyler Cowen, “Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly”, in New York Times

Questions about reprivatized

What is reprivatized the simple past and past participle of?
Reprivatized is the simple past and past participle of reprivatize.

Words near reprivatized in the dictionary

  1. reprivatises
  2. reprivatising
  3. reprivatization
  4. reprivatizations
  5. reprivatize
  6. reprivatized
  7. reprivatizes
  8. reprivatizing
  9. reprive
  10. reprived
  11. reprives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reprivatized (page history and authors); reprivatize (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reprivatized.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reprivatized. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.