privatizedadj.
/ˈprʌɪvᵻtʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈpraɪvəˌtaɪzd/ 1. Made individual, private, or personal, rather than social or communal; oriented towards or centred around the individual.
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1948 R. Bain in H. Becker & R. Hill Family, Marriage & Parenthood vi. 185 ‘Privatized’ values, stereotypes, folklore, tradition, and common sense flourish in primary groups.
1970 J. J. Shapiro tr. J. Habermas 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.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 21 Mar. 5/2 Still today, many of these ‘privatized believers’ lack faith in institutions.
2. Of a business, industry, or service: transferred from public to private ownership and control.
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1977 Economist 7 May 31/1 Everything else, including initially the welfare state (pensions, some aspects of health, etc.), [is] in big businesses' hands. Privatised welfare works.
1988 M. Waterson Regulation of Firm & Nat. Monopoly (BNC) 82 Many large companies have introduced executive share option schemes... Indeed, privatized companies have also introduced them, e.g. British Telecom.
1997 Mod. Railways July 396/1 They had clearly been looking forward to giving one of the privatised train operators, which they had demonised in opposition, a good seeing-to.
2001 BusinessWeek 31 Dec. 59/3 Governments retain ‘golden shares’ in privatized utilities to keep foreigners from buying them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1948- to consign to the ashcan of history
- to consist by
- to consist in
- to consist of
- to consist on or upon
- to consult one's feelings
- to consult one's pillow
- to consult with
- to consult with one's pillow
- to consume one's own smoke
- to contemplate one's navel
- to content one's mind
- to continue doing or to do
- to continue on one's merry way
- to continue one's merry way
- to contract acquaintance
- to contract friendship
- to contract in
- to contract oneself out of
- to contract out
- to contribute for or to do
- to contribute to or to do
- to control one's muscles
- to control the point
- to controverse in question