reprivatization

Definitions

The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.

Equivalents

Examples

“‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end⟳ of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for complete⟳ ‘re-privatisation.’”

“POLITICAL OBSTACLES The process⟳ of nationalization and reprivatization went amazingly well in Sweden partly because it was remarkably free of political interference.”

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