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    PRIVATISE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they privatise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it privatises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: privatised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: privatised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: privatising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Change from governmental to private control or ownershipplay

    Example:

    The oil industry was privatized

    Synonyms:

    privatise; privatize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "privatise" is one way to...):

    denationalise; denationalize (put under private control or ownership)

    Domain category:

    industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

    business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    privatisation (changing something from state to private ownership or control)

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