privatize
verb (used with object)
to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise.
was privatizing
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past progressiveof privatize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Browder is an American-born British financier who invested in Russia in the 1990s as the country was privatizing many businesses.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
China was privatizing most of its state-owned enterprises.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2015
As Manion was privatizing the NPC, he ended his organizations’ affiliation with the world’s biggest bodybuilding organization, the IFBB.
From Washington Post
