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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reprivatize.

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  • Once the banks which should be taken into receivership by the government are identified (stress testing by the Treasury Department will accomplish that) those banks can be swiftly taken into receivership, reorganized, and -- most essentially -- promptly reprivatized.

    How to "Reprivatize" the Bad Banks 2009

  • In 1992, the Swedish government took over its insolvent banks, cleaned them up and reprivatized them.

    Art Levine: Will Geithner's Bungled Bank Plan Fuel Populist Revolt Against Dems? 2009

  • Those Southeast Asian banks that have been reprivatized have often gone back to the billionaire fraternity; Liem's BCA, for instance, is now controlled by the Hartono tobacco dynasty.

    Ties That Bind 2007

  • Gingrich said at the education forum that private loans should be reprivatized before the president bankrupts the entire country by promising to every young person you will not have to pay your student loan as a student.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Gingrich said government loans should be reprivatized before Obama bankrupts the entire country "by promising to every young person you will not have to pay your student loan as a student."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Gingrich said government loans should be reprivatized before Obama bankrupts the entire country "by promising to every young person you will not have to pay your student loan as a student."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • That would be especially true if the mortgage insurance business were dominated by a few large companies, like a reprivatized Freddie and Fannie.

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD L. GLAESER 2011

  • Taxpayer money is used to create viable instituitons that can be reprivatized.

    MoJo Blogs and Articles 2009

  • Would all the people mad about the government unjustly "rewarding failure" be happy if the government nationalized all the banks, cleaned out their investors, and then reprivatized them with different names?

    Gadgets Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • Would all the people mad about the government unjustly "rewarding failure" be happy if the government nationalized all the banks, cleaned out their investors, and then reprivatized them with different names?

    China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

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