corporatization

American  

[kawr-per-uh-tahyz-ay-shuhn, kawr-pruh-tahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˈkɔr pər əˌtaɪz eɪ ʃən, ˈkɔr prəˌtaɪz eɪ ʃən /

noun

corporatizations plural

1. the process of transforming a government-owned organization or asset into a corporation, where the government is a majority shareholder.

2. the process of introducing practices characteristic of corporations.

3. the process by which an activity or institution becomes organized or operated with a corporate or profit-driven model.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• over-corporatization
  noun
• de-corporatization
  noun
• anti-corporatization
  adjective

Inflected Forms

noun

• corporatizations
  plural

Example Sentences

The result “elated” Oregonians opposed to the corporatization of healthcare, said Hayden Rooke-Ley, a Portland-based senior fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health who advises states—including Oregon—on how to combat corporate medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The corporatization of Vimeo was also off-putting because Vimeo’s whole image, from jump, was to be something different from the other video platforms popping up in the transition to Web 2.0.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026

“My goal — always — is to slow the tide of the corporatization of rental property ownership across L.A. County,” Mitchell said at Tuesday’s board meeting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

But he also worries about the corporatization of American medicine and being pushed by administrators to work faster with fewer resources, compromising the mission of providing quality care for society’s most vulnerable.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

For example, alternative proteins do not necessarily challenge the corporatization or homogenization of conventional industrial agriculture.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022