PRIVATISE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they privatise ... he / she / it privatises

Past simple: privatised

Past participle: privatised

-ing form: privatising

Meaning:

Change from governmental to private control or ownership

Example:

The oil industry was privatized

Synonyms:

privatise; privatize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "privatise" is one way to...):

denationalise; denationalize (put under private control or ownership)

Domain category:

industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

privatisation (changing something from state to private ownership or control)