Definitions
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- verb chiefly British Alternative spelling of
privatize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb change from governmental to private control or ownership
Etymologies
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Examples
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We are all aware of the long term aim of the conservatives in their want to effectively 'privatise' the health service and with privatisation as we are already seeing will come the shut down of 'unprofitable' services and the fall in standards as accountability and targets and monitoring bodies are taken away and the market place begins to dictate policies.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq 2006
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Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq 2006
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Tehran planning to 'privatise' all refineries, petchem units: oil min
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily siraj mohammed 2010
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The NSW Greens today accused the Prime Minister of trying to "privatise" the public school system with a plan designed to give more autonomy to schools by handing responsibility for budgets and the hiring of teachers to principals and school councils.
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The bodies have, in separate initiatives, slammed attempts to "privatise" the state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and have railed against the practices of commercial radio stations.
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But the journalist body has found an ally in the government funded NMC that has resisted calls to "privatise" the public broadcaster.
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It's outrageous that these people who are earning an absolute fortune have effectively been able to nationalise their losses and privatise their profits.
Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it? 2011
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And they gamed a system knowing they could socialise losses and privatise dynastic profit and grew their balance sheets by stunning amounts.
Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it? 2011
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A good start, until you realise that these apologies were only for his failure to communicate the government's real plans which are – oh, I dunno, to fill the hospitals with cancer-curing puppies or whatever, but certainly not to cut frontline services to the bone and use the resulting disaster as an excuse to privatise by the back door.
This week: Andrew Lansley, Gillian Duffy, Mark Zuckerberg 2011
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