privatize
verb (used with object)
to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise.
had privatized
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past perfectof privatize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When their new nation, Lakes United, had privatized everything from schools to septic, they’d worked long hours organizing Milwaukee’s neighborhoods into co-ops.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
The Parliament began its emergency Sunday session by adopting a law restoring state ownership of Mr. Yanukovych’s opulent presidential palace, which he had privatized.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
Chubais likes to take the credit for elevating the obscure Putin, once bragging aloud at a party that he had "privatized" the former KGB agent too.
From Time Magazine Archive
