reprivatization

English

Alternative forms

• reprivatisation
• re-privatisation
• re-privatization

Etymology

From re- +‎ privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly a calque of German Reprivatisierung (“reprivatization”).

Noun

reprivatization (plural reprivatizations)

1. (economics) The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.

   Hypernyms: denationalization, privatization

   • 1936 August 1, The Economist:

     ‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for complete ‘re-privatisation.’

   • 2009 March 8, Alan S. Blinder, “Nationalize? Hey, Not So Fast”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     POLITICAL OBSTACLES The process of nationalization and reprivatization went amazingly well in Sweden partly because it was remarkably free of political interference.

Related terms

• reprivatize

Translations

returning to private ownership

• Dutch: reprivatisering f
• German: Reprivatisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: reprivatizáció
• Icelandic: endureinkavæðing f
• Polish: reprywatyzacja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: реприватиза́ција f

  Roman: reprivatizácija f