Privatize
verb
To change a business or service from public to private ownership.
The government plans to privatize the postal service.
Often appears as...
- privatize the industry
- privatize public services
verb
To make private, especially something that was previously public or shared.
They decided to privatize their wedding ceremony.
Often appears as...
- privatize information
- privatize the celebration
verb
To change a business or service from public to private ownership.
The government plans to privatize the postal service.
Often appears as...
- privatize the industry
- privatize public services
verb
To make private, especially something that was previously public or shared.
They decided to privatize their wedding ceremony.
Often appears as...
- privatize information
- privatize the celebration
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Pro Tip 1/3Political Debate
The term is often discussed in politics; opinions on privatization can be strong and divided.
Debates on whether to privatize the water supply are heating up.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Impact
When learning 'privatize,' understand it can lead to major shifts in economies and affect jobs.
Workers were concerned about job security after the privatization announcement.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Services
'Privatize' is often used about services like healthcare, education, and transport.
Citizens protested the decision to privatize the national healthcare system.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Debate
The term is often discussed in politics; opinions on privatization can be strong and divided.
Debates on whether to privatize the water supply are heating up.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Impact
When learning 'privatize,' understand it can lead to major shifts in economies and affect jobs.
Workers were concerned about job security after the privatization announcement.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Services
'Privatize' is often used about services like healthcare, education, and transport.
Citizens protested the decision to privatize the national healthcare system.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Debate
The term is often discussed in politics; opinions on privatization can be strong and divided.
Debates on whether to privatize the water supply are heating up.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Impact
When learning 'privatize,' understand it can lead to major shifts in economies and affect jobs.
Workers were concerned about job security after the privatization announcement.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Services
'Privatize' is often used about services like healthcare, education, and transport.
Citizens protested the decision to privatize the national healthcare system.
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Demand a more...
other in great ways but private communities private corporate privatizing communities are not bottom of democracies they cannot replace government friending someone on facebook is not complex enough to do the hard work of you and I collaborating with each other in doing the hard work of
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
And on a macro level -- some of the speakers have inferred that even health should be privatized. But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help,
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A stealthy reimagining...
of insinuating space for the public into otherwise private building projects. Either way, all democracies need champions. It's our role, as stewards of the urban realm, to will public space into existence and to democratize our progressively privatized cities.
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Inside the massive (and...
And of course, technology does offer the tantalizing promise of helping control a pandemic through contact tracing. But it also opens up another door, to privatized mass surveillance. So what do we do about this private spy bazaar? We can hide, go offline,
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The new American Dream PIPE...
and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it, and reclaiming village life, reclaiming interdependence instead. Fifty million of us, for example, live in intergenerational households. This number exploded with the Great Recession,
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
actually been in private property for longer than that I'll forget exactly when it was privatized but for about 60 odd years 70 years maybe even getting there people have been trying to conduct wilderness sort of events and this is
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How...
out of businesses it had nothing -- it had no business being in. The state should not be in the business of producing goods and services because it's inefficient and incompetent. So we decided to privatize many of our enterprises.
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How synthetic biology...
because we already tried that with the financial system, and our stewards became massively corrupted as they figured out how they could cut corners, inflict massive, massive risks on the rest of us and privatize the gains,
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Jessica Kerr: Who makes...
is that even though judges are such an important part of government, we've basically privatized the system of making them. That work is done, if it's done at all, within the private legal profession. And here's the thing.
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My road trip through the...
freedom, the allure of privatism -- privatized places, privatized people, privatized things.
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Demand a more...
other in great ways but private communities private corporate privatizing communities are not bottom of democracies they cannot replace government friending someone on facebook is not complex enough to do the hard work of you and I collaborating with each other in doing the hard work of
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
And on a macro level -- some of the speakers have inferred that even health should be privatized. But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help,
Video examples
A stealthy reimagining...
of insinuating space for the public into otherwise private building projects. Either way, all democracies need champions. It's our role, as stewards of the urban realm, to will public space into existence and to democratize our progressively privatized cities.
Video examples
Inside the massive (and...
And of course, technology does offer the tantalizing promise of helping control a pandemic through contact tracing. But it also opens up another door, to privatized mass surveillance. So what do we do about this private spy bazaar? We can hide, go offline,
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it, and reclaiming village life, reclaiming interdependence instead. Fifty million of us, for example, live in intergenerational households. This number exploded with the Great Recession,
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
actually been in private property for longer than that I'll forget exactly when it was privatized but for about 60 odd years 70 years maybe even getting there people have been trying to conduct wilderness sort of events and this is
Video examples
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How...
out of businesses it had nothing -- it had no business being in. The state should not be in the business of producing goods and services because it's inefficient and incompetent. So we decided to privatize many of our enterprises.
Video examples
How synthetic biology...
because we already tried that with the financial system, and our stewards became massively corrupted as they figured out how they could cut corners, inflict massive, massive risks on the rest of us and privatize the gains,
Video examples
Jessica Kerr: Who makes...
is that even though judges are such an important part of government, we've basically privatized the system of making them. That work is done, if it's done at all, within the private legal profession. And here's the thing.
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My road trip through the...
freedom, the allure of privatism -- privatized places, privatized people, privatized things.
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Thomas Frank
American Author
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
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Henry Giroux
American Critic
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
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Eli Broad
American Businessman
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
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John Delaney
American Politician
Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.
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Paul Broun
American Politician
TSA needs to be totally changed. I would like them to be privatized.
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Jesse Ventura
American Politician
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
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Bill Flores
American Politician
I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.
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Saxby Chambliss
American Politician
I never sought to privatize Social Security.
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Erik Prince
American Businessman
We need to privatize whenever possible.
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Thomas Frank
American Author
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
Quote examples
Henry Giroux
American Critic
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
Quote examples
Eli Broad
American Businessman
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
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John Delaney
American Politician
Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.
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Paul Broun
American Politician
TSA needs to be totally changed. I would like them to be privatized.
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Jesse Ventura
American Politician
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
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Bill Flores
American Politician
I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.
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Saxby Chambliss
American Politician
I never sought to privatize Social Security.
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Erik Prince
American Businessman
We need to privatize whenever possible.
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