privatize

• privatise (non-Oxford British English, Commonwealth)

private +‎ -ize

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/
• Hyphenation: pri‧va‧tize

privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. (computing, transitive) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
   • 1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop (page 184)

     If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.

• denationalize

• nationalize

• privatization
• privatizer

• “privatize” in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

privatize

1. inflection of privatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative