Definitions For Reprivatization

Noun

REPRIVATIZATION (plural REPRIVATIZATIONs) (economics) The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership. : {{hyper, en, denationalization, privatization}}

Related terms

reprivatize

Translations

Dutch: reprivatisering, f German: Reprivatisierung, f Hungarian: reprivatizáció Icelandic: endureinkavæðing, f Polish: reprywatyzacja, f Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: реприватиза́ција, f : Roman: reprivatizácija, f

Alternative forms

reprivatisation re-privatisation re-privatization

Etymology

from re + privatization; coined as early as 1936. possibly a {{calque + en + de + reprivatisierung + + reprivatization + nocap=1}}.{{cite-journal + last=bel + first=germà + title=retrospectives: the coining of “privatization” and germany’s national socialist party + url=https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.20.3.187 + journal=journal of economic perspectives + volume=20 + number=3 + year=2006 + pages=187–194 + doi=10.1257/jep.20.3.187}}