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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
privatise .
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Examples
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The sooner a new Government gets in and privatises the BBC thus removing the threat of prison to those including myself who are forced to pay the extortionate licence fee the better.
Selected targets 2009
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The DYDA DISPATCHES: Italy privatises its culture skip to main
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Political parties in Mpumalanga are promising to renegotiate and even cancel a R300 million contract that privatises Nelspruit's water and waste management in a bid to win votes during the municipal elections on December 5, African Eye News Service reported.
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And I would submit that the government can function more effectively when it leaves the private sector to do what the private sector does best -- re-privatises the tourism industry in order to help it grow.
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"Democracy in South Africa is proceeding well, but there will be no improvement in the economy until the government takes decisive action, privatises parastatals and curbs the power of the unions," she said.
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If the Government gets its way and privatises Royal Mail, then delivery standards will undoubtedly slip away as the expensive universal service is left at the mercy of privateers who care only for profit.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Of course changing populations will also have an impact on energy demand but by and large it is the onward and upward nonstop economic expansion model of neo liberalism, which instead of sharing and socialising profit, privatises profit, which instead of asking people to grow up and limit their super ego mayhem needs, by structural necessity, to encourage excess and waste and renewal.
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Throwing money at the banks privatises profits and nationalises losses, when it should work exactly the other way round.
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Governments around the industrialised world have pumped billions of dollars into their financial sectors to bail out financial institutions, leading to charges that capitalism privatises profits but socialises losses.
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When the government wants to build roads it talks about new investment in the infrastructure, but when it comes to our railways it talks about subsidies and privatises it.
British Blogs 2008
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