English Explanatory Dictionary

reprivatization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.

Word forms

reprivatization reprivatizations reprivatisation re-privatisation re-privatization

Etymology

From re- + privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly a calque of German Reprivatisierung (“reprivatization”).

Related words

reprivatize
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