privatize
[prahy-vuh-tahyz]
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verb (used with object), pri·va·tized, pri·va·tiz·ing.
to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
to make exclusive; delimit or appropriate: special-interest groups attempting to privatize social issues.
Also especially British, pri·va·tise.
Origin of privatize
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This runs in stark contrast to the temptation to privatize every resource and turn it into a profitable market.
“Privatize” rabbinic courts: “denude” them of legal powers and government budgets.
A Divorce Made in Heaven: Don’t Reform Israel’s State Rabbinate. Shut It Down.Gershom Gorenberg
December 3, 2013
All you have to do is sign the Ryan budget into law and privatize Medicare.
Forget about the Second Amendment—the gun lobby, abetted by timorous Republicans, is trying to privatize law and order.
George W. Bush claimed a mandate after 2004, and then promptly saw Democrats decimate his proposal to privatize Social Security.
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