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Privatise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of privatize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "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."

  2. 2
    change from governmental to private control or ownership wordnet

Etymology

From private + -ise.

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