privatization

名词 n.
/ˌpɹaɪvɪtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/    /ˌpɹaɪvətaɪˈzeɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control. British,English,Oxford,US,countable
    — Coordinate term: denationalization
  2. The rendering of a thought or an idea, as private in scope. British,English,Oxford,US,countable
    — Questioning the privilege of biology went hand in hand with a challenge to the privatization of the family and the notion that parents own children and may therefore treat them however they choose.

词形变化

privatizations plural privatisation alternative

词源

Calque of German Privatisierung (with English -ation), derived from Latin prīvātus (“apart from the state; private”), with reference to post-First World War German economic principles. Popularized by Sidney Merlin in 1943, who was aware of the term reprivatization (used in similar contexts), already attested at the time.
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