to convert (a government-controlled industry or enterprise) into an independent company
2. (intransitive)
to be influenced by or take on the features of a large commercial business, esp in being bureaucratic and uncaring
corporatize in American English
(ˈkɔrpərəˌtaiz, -prəˌtaiz)
transitive verbWord forms: -tized, -tizing
to develop into big business; bring under the control of a corporation
to corporatize baseball
Alsoesp Britcorporatise
Derived forms
corporatization
noun
Word origin
[corporate + -ize]-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)