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reprivatization

Definitions

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  • noun economics The process or an instance of returning to private ownership.

Etymologies

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From re- +‎ privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly based on German Reprivatisierung ("reprivatization").

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Examples

  • Why haven't we seen an ammendment suggested that would help pull us out of this crisis and help the notion of reprivatization that said, "If you are a too-big-to-fail institution, and you have to rely on government asset purchases, government debt guarantees, access to the Fed window for more than a 60 day period, etc., your board members and your executives will all be considered to be working under a supervisory action, immediately, replaced as soon as possible, and your board and senior officers will all be prohibited from working for a regulated financial institution for a period of five years."

    Housing Doom 2009

  • Accordingly, this office recommends a new corporate strategy: Whatever Mr. Obama says, GE should do the opposite, starting with investing in coal-burning power-plants and health care reprivatization.

    What GE Was Thinking in 2011 Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • That will minimize costs (which will still be large) and reprivatization will allow the government to recoup some of the upside.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars 2009

  • And I think, as I said earlier, we're not going to see any more no-strings bailouts, and we're hopefully a lot closer to the kind of recievership - and-reprivatization process that should have been done from the start.

    House Passes The AIG Bonus Tax 2010

  • Reading about the Tolyatti "business dispute," the pressure on the courts, and the purported role of the presidential administration reminded me of the scandalous interview that formerly Kremlin-connected fund manager Oleg Shvartsman gave to "Kommersant" in November 2007 in which he cast some light on the "voluntary-compulsory" measures that Putin insiders (he named especially First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin) in order to implement a "velvet reprivatization."

    Robert Coalson: The Myth Of Putin's Popularity 2009

  • Just six months after the Orange Revolution brought a pro-democracy team to power in 2005, moderate, avidly pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Mrs. Tymoshenko from the post of prime minister, in part because she was pushing for wide-scale reprivatization of assets of Ukraine's wealthy businessmen she believed were bought at sharp discounts through political connections.

    Ukraine's Chief Picks Big Targets 2008

  • The Argentine congress approved the repurchase plan only after removing a clause allowing for the airline's future reprivatization.

    Airline Grab Gains Ground in Argentina 2008

  • The governing coalition agreed to the reprivatization of farmlands.

    1990, Jan. 5 2001

  • Komorowski, who is aligned with Tusk's governing Civic Platform party but is elected separately from the government, also acknowledged what many critics frequently note - that Poland is the only young democracy from the former East Bloc that hasn't passed any reprivatization or recompensation law.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • In the world after the crisis, how can we move toward reprivatization?

    AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online 2010

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