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UK
/pɹˌaɪvətaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪvətəˈzeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪvətəˈzeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- changing something from state to private ownership or control
How To Use privatisation In A Sentence
- We stand against privatisation of public services and against tuition fees.
- bedevil" government's privatisation plans, industrial relations and human resources company NMG-Levy said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Privatisation is a necessary staging post to an open market.
- It has accepted sizeable donations from the financier as the party has campaigned heavily against the privatisation of the British health service. Times, Sunday Times
- Privatisation and gimmickry are not the answer to improving Britain's rail service.
- Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
- In reality, the effects of privatisation and subcontracting in community care has decimated the true potential of people that need support in the community.
- The answers may yet scupper privatisation - they did once before. Times, Sunday Times
- I reject absolutely the notion that privatisation of our industry is now inevitable.
- Another field of interest shown by Milan's municipal companies was in gas distribution and the privatisation of thermoelectric power plants in Bulgaria.