0 past simple and past participle of privatize --
1 If a government privatizes an industry, company, or service that it owns and controls, it sells it so that it becomes privately owned and controlled: --
It recuperated women from the public world of crime and restored them to a privatized and asocial domestic space.
The issue is that most of the land not yet privatized decreases its productivity very rapidly as it is continuously cultivated.
More than 50 per cent of the stateowned enterprise assets are privatized in a scheme that reflects support for corporate governance.
Consequently, many of the businesses that had been privatized only a few years earlier were re-nationalized.
Once a natural resource is privatized, the negative externality to child bearing disappears and is internalized by the household.
In addition, a definition based solely on private ownership will include those formerly state-owned enterprises that have been privatized.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, further commons were parcelled out, privatized and/or sold.
The community lands of communidades were virtually privatized in the post-liberation phase and this created a new community of resource owners.
