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What does privatize mean?

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  1. (economics) To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.
  2. (computing) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
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A central part of the reform process was to privatize many of the nationalized industries through floating the companies on the stock market.
The rate increase was a preparation for plans to privatize electrical service.
In October, a massive outcry from citizens put the brakes on the city's plans to privatize its own water system.
I don't offhand dismiss speculation that this is all a neoconservative plot to privatize Iraqi art.
Measures to privatize publicly owned undertakings and weaken trade unions were also introduced.
The postal officials reportedly supported Koso as an opponent of government plans to privatize postal services.

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