reprivatizationn.
/ˌriːprʌɪvᵻtʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌriˌpraɪvədəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌriˌpraɪvəˌtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of returning a previously nationalized business, industry, or service to private ownership and control; an instance of this. Cf. reprivatize v.
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the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > collective ownership > communization or nationalization > denationalization
denationalization1921
reprivatization1935
1935 M. Davidson tr. R. Braun Fascism, make or Break? 37 The Steel Trust's big capitalist competitors stood for ‘reprivatisation’, that is to say, they wanted to buy up the shares in the Steel Trust from the State dirt cheap—financed with State credits.
1942 Econ. Jrnl. 52 377 In pursuance of ‘re-privatisation’, factories and machine tools which were previously only leased to private business-men are now to be sold to them.
1989 D. E. Parmelee in M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. vi. 185 Marketization is still a rather limited strategy for coping with economic crises, at least to the extent that it resembles a reprivatization of the health sector.
2008 Daily Tel. 20 Feb. (Business section) b1/3 If the reprivatisation occurs in the near future, we would be willing to consider a new bid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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