noun
definition
The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
Examples of privatization in a Sentence
The privatization policies had merely accentuated the power of the market principle over the principle of redistribution.
Possible privatization of road mending services cause some concern.
We can tell others about the negative effects of the privatization of water in the UK.
The West Coast Mainline has become the biggest fiasco in the short history of rail privatization.
Privatization and a growing divide Opening the gas and electricity market Socially responsible suppliers?
Thank goodness he did not live to see the shambles that turned into the Tories ' privatization of the railways.
The CFI has partially annulled the Commission's decision to order recovery of restructuring and privatization state aid by Germany to German companies.
We're seeing the breakup and privatization of the NHS.
Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.
Even while the upheaval and reorganization of privatization was under way, we maintained generally cordial relations with local rail managers.
Privatization does not work, is driven by dogma and is horrendously expensive.
Thousands of workers in Thailand are currently embroiled in a row over energy privatization.
Getting motions passed at general meetings forces Student Unions to campaign against privatization.
We believe it should remain a mainly not-for-profit entity and do not support its privatization.
Council Workers not paid through Privatization More than 4,000 council workers in Cumbria are missing their monthly wage packet.
What GATS does do, however, is to entrench privatization and make it irreversible, possibly permanent.
That is why Mesa used a fraudulent plebiscite to mask the continuing privatization of the energy industry behind promises of nationalization.
The Kenyan government's aggressive pursuit of land privatization, for example, has proved highly prejudicial to pastoral groups such as the Maasai.
He produced a remarkably prophetic report on Rail Privatization.
In the European Union and elsewhere, neo-liberals have tried to recuperate these aspirations through their policies of marketisation and privatization.
There 's more to ' supply-side ' reform than privatization.
Klaus's privatization produced a rather circular, fairly complex and impenetrable structure of businesses in the Czech Republic.
Rail privatization was once dubbed poll tax on wheels.
Social Security reform regarding a possible transition to a privatization of Social Security.