privatization

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• UK: /ˌpɹaɪvɪtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
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• US: /ˌpɹaɪvətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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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.

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَصْخَصَة (ḵaṣḵaṣa) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Arabic: خَوْصَصَة (ḵawṣaṣa) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Armenian: սեփականաշնորհում (sepʻakanašnorhum) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Armenian: մասնավորեցում (masnavorecʻum) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Asturian: privatización — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Azerbaijani: özəlləşdirmə — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Basque: pribatizazio — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Belarusian: прыватыза́цыя (pryvatyzácyja) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Bulgarian: приватиза́ция (privatizácija) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Catalan: privatització — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Chinese Mandarin: 私有化 (sīyǒuhuà) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Chinese Mandarin: 民營化 /民营化 (mínyínghuà) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Czech: privatizace — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Dutch: privatisering — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Estonian: erastamine — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Finnish: yksityistäminen — transfer from the government to private ownership
• French: privatisation — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Galician: privatización — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Georgian: პრივატიზება (ṗrivaṭizeba) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Georgian: პრივატიზაცია (ṗrivaṭizacia) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• German: Privatisierung — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Greek: ιδιωτικοποίηση (idiotikopoíisi) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Hebrew: הַפְרָטָה (hafratá) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Hindi: निजीकरण (nijīkraṇ) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Hungarian: privatizáció — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Icelandic: einkavæðing — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Italian: privatizzazione — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Japanese: 私営化 (shieika) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Japanese: 民営化 (min'eika) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Kazakh: жекешелендіру (jekeşelendıru) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Korean: 민영화 (minyeonghwa) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Latvian: privatizācija — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Lithuanian: privatizacija — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Macedonian: приватизација (privatizacija) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Malay: penswastaan — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Malayalam: സ്വകാര്യവത്കരണം (svakāryavatkaraṇaṁ) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Marathi: खाजगीकरण (khāj̈gīkaraṇ) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Occitan: privatizacion — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Persian: خصوصیسازی (xosusi-sâzi) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Polish: prywatyzacja — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Portuguese: privatização — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Romanian: privatizare — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Russian: приватиза́ция (privatizácija) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Serbo-Croatian: приватиза́ција — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Serbo-Croatian: privatizácija — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Slovak: privatizácia — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Slovene: privatizacija — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Spanish: privatización — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Swahili: ubinafsishaji — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Swedish: privatisering — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Turkish: özelleştirme — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Ukrainian: приватиза́ція (pryvatyzácija) — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Uzbek: privatizatsiya — transfer from the government to private ownership
• Vietnamese: tư nhân hóa — transfer from the government to private ownership