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privateer
  1. To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy. [from 17th c.]
  2. To advocate or benefit from privatization of government services.
privatize
  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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  4. Examples:
    1. “It's a battle waged by zealots who want to privatize the public schools that educate your workers.”
      “The rate increase was a preparation for plans to privatize electrical service.”
      “At the top of its list was a request that the government halt plans to privatize and corporatize the Taiwan Railway Administration.”
privatise
  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of privatize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And in saying that, I believe the endgame is to privatise the whole of the benefits system, full stop!”
      “The National Party has a record of attempting to privatise some services in the health system.”
      “He will continue to privatise whatever he can get his grasping little hands on.”
privatizing
privateering
  1. present participle of privateer
privateers
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer
privatises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privatise
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privatizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privatize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In a sense, the program privatizes enforcement just as the agency is struggling to get more public financing.”
      “In effect, this law privatizes justice, perhaps the ultimate libertarian norm.”
      “By selectively telling history from below, by highlighting emotion and sketching everything else, Mr. Burns privatizes war.”
privatised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of privatise
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down.”
      “It has come right in the case of the fruit industry, but that industry is largely privatised.”
      “Increasing numbers of privatised water schemes are linked to ventures to abstract more water through vast dams and reservoirs.”
privatized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of privatize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To sell privatized pension plans to workers, Chile's fund managers hired miniskirted marketers to troll outside factories and office buildings.”
      “The government already has privatized pensions, telephone service, and electricity.”
      “After the fall of the socialist government, many inefficient industries were privatized.”
privateered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of privateer
privatising
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