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privatization issue

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noun

  1. an issue of shares available for purchase by members of the public when a publicly owned organization is transferred to the private sector

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The bipartisan Senate measure, which sidesteps the privatization issue, contains a series of travel security provisions that Senate Republicans have promoted as the most comprehensive increase in airport security in nearly a decade.

From Reuters • Apr. 19, 2016