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Meanings of privatise in English

Portuguese
privatizar
Catalan
privatitzar

Change from governmental to private control or ownership.

privatizar
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Examples for "privatize"
Examples for "privatize"
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He also stands by his 2004 plan to partially privatize Social Security.
Reuters
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Many critics complained that banks privatize their profits and socialize their losses.
Reuters
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Over the longer term, the government also plans to privatize KDB Financial Group.
Reuters
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Yet several deadlines to privatize the system have come and gone.
Reuters
5
Now oil prices are recovering, the imperative to privatize is fading.
Reuters
Usage of privatise in English
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The Garda campaign comes as the Government prepares to privatise speed cameras.
The Irish Times
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Most governments see that the way to do that is to privatise.
The Guardian
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The former business secretary Lord Mandelson attempted to privatise the Royal Mail.
The Guardian
4
Britain wants to privatise its one-third stake in uranium enrichment firm Urenco.
Reuters
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Cyprus's cabinet approved on Thursday a roadmap to privatise all three corporations.
Reuters
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Why not go the whole hog lads and privatise the entire country?
The Irish Times
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Matlak said PO wanted to reform but not to privatise the health service.
Reuters
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I am speaking, of course, of plans to privatise public transport.
The Irish Times
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His solution to the problem is to break them up and privatise them.
The Irish Times
10
PCCW said the announcement related to plans to privatise the company, without elaborating.
Reuters
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They will object to plans to reform wage bargaining and not privatise electricity.
Reuters
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Kuwait's parliament approved a plan in 2008 to privatise loss-making Kuwait Airways Corp.
Reuters
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Kuwait's parliament approved a plan in 2008 to privatise Kuwait Airways.
Reuters
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National's contentious election promise to privatise personal injury insurance was quietly abandoned too.
The Guardian
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Now oil prices are recovering, the imperative to privatise is fading.
Reuters
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Cyprus's cabinet had on Thursday approved a roadmap to privatise all three corporations.
Reuters
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Portuguese
privatizar
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