privatize
verb🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/
🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/
(British English also privatise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they privatize | 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/ 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪz/ |
| he / she / it privatizes | 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple privatized | 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ |
| past participle privatized | 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzd/ |
| -ing form privatizing | 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈpraɪvətaɪzɪŋ/ |
- privatize something
to sell a business or an industry so that it is no longer owned by the government 使私有化；将…私营化 Air traffic control has been privatized. 空中交通管制已被私有化。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrivatize is used with these nouns as the object:- enterprise
- health service
- industry
- …