| 释义 |
privatize, v.|ˈpraɪvətaɪz|
[f. private a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To regard as personal or separate, spec. in the sense of privatization 2.
1969W. Glen-Doepel tr. Metz's Theol. of World v. 109 The societal dimension of the Christian message was not given its proper importance but, implicitly or explicitly, treated as a secondary matter. In short, the message was ‘privatized’ and the practice of faith reduced to the timeless decision of the person. Ibid. 114 It is impossible to privatize the eschatological promises of biblical tradition: liberty, peace, justice, reconciliation. Again and again they force us to assume our responsibilities towards society. 1972Biblical Theol. Bull. Feb. 47 Because of their transcendental, existentialistic, personalistic drift these theologies have privatized and presentialized the Christian message. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Apr. 441/4 Few of his dockers were ‘privatized’ in the sense in which that term was used by Goldthorpe and his colleagues in their Luton study. 1979E. Norman Christianity & World Order vi. 80 The modern politicized Christians also ‘privatize’ religion.
2. To make private as opposed to public, spec. of the State, to assign (services, industries, etc.) to private enterprise; = denationalize v. 2 b.
1970New Society 5 Feb. 222/3 Is the Office of Health Economics trying to hint that the best place to start totally privatising the National Health Service is at eye level? 1972Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 16 Some local government services (water, refuse collection, fire-fighting, sea-side amenities, art galleries, museums) could be ‘privatised’, as well as national health services and State schools. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Dec. 7/2 The House might want to address itself to the question whether we want the Crown corporations to continue to be involved in business or whether they should all be privatized. 1979Ibid. 24 May 7/5 Mr. Clark intends to proceed with his promise to ‘privatize’ Petro Canada.
Hence ˈprivatized ppl. a.
1968Brit. Universities Ann. 95 Until recently, the values of the entertainment industry, and the demand for purely ‘privatised’ standards of morality gave the young little to act collectively about. 1969R. Blackburn in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 195 Condemned to a trapped existence in anonymous private or public bureaucracies, ‘industrial’ man is promised the domestic joys of a ‘privatized’ existence. 1971J. J. Shapiro tr. Habermas's Toward Rational Society ii. 13 The adult role anticipated at the university..is therefore unsuited for supporting a privatized orientation bound to career and advancement. 1973Goldthorpe & Lockwood in Sociol. Rev. II. 154 At this point we may return to our earlier distinction between the ‘privatised’ and the ‘socially aspiring’ worker. 1976Spare Rib Dec. 4/3 As long as most people live in nuclear family-type set-ups..baby-sitting will remain a ‘privatised’, individual act. 1978A. Brittan (title) The privatised world. Ibid. v. 121 The ‘privatised self’ is explicable in terms of developments in the class structures of western societies.
Add: ˈprivatizer n.
1980Economist 7 June 68/1 Treasury ministers, privatisers by instinct, are not worried about forgoing BNOC's potential oil profits. 1986Sun (Melbourne) 10 Jan. 8/3 Last year, Mr Carlton described the Premier as the best privatiser in the business. |