Meaning of privatise | Babel Free

Definitions

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of privatize.

UK, alt-of, nonstandard

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Examples

“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.”

“A senior rail source said: "Frankly, no one believes being on the government books is temporary. The only bits of the railway still genuinely privatised are the freight trains and the rolling stock owners.”

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