privatise

See also: privatisé

English

Etymology

From private +‎ -ise.

Verb

privatise (third-person singular simple present privatises, present participle privatising, simple past and past participle privatised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of privatize.
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

   • 2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 7:

     A senior rail source said: "Frankly, no one believes being on the government books is temporary. The only bits of the railway still genuinely privatised are the freight trains and the rolling stock owners.

Synonyms

• denationalise

Antonyms

• nationalise

Derived terms

• privatisation
• reprivatise

Anagrams

• pravities

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.va.tiz/

Verb

privatise

1. inflection of privatiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative