privatize

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/

Verb

privatize (privatizes, present participle privatizing; past and past participle privatized)

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.

Synonyms

• denationalize

Antonyms

• nationalize

Related terms

• privatization

Translations

• French: privatiser
• German: privatisieren
• Italian: privatizzare
• Portuguese: privatizar
• Russian: приватизи́ровать
• Spanish: privatizar

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