privatize

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• General-American: /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/
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Etymology tree English private Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English privatize From private + -ize.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَصْخَصَ (ḵaṣḵaṣa) — to release government control to private industry
• Armenian: սեփականաշնորհել (sepʻakanašnorhel) — to release government control to private industry
• Asturian: privatizar — to release government control to private industry
• Azerbaijani: özəlləşdirmək — to release government control to private industry
• Belarusian: прыватызава́ць (pryvatyzavácʹ) — to release government control to private industry
• Bulgarian: приватизи́рам (privatizíram) — to release government control to private industry
• Catalan: privatitzar — to release government control to private industry
• Chinese Mandarin: 私有化 (sīyǒuhuà) — to release government control to private industry
• Chinese Mandarin: 民營化 /民营化 (mínyínghuà) — to release government control to private industry
• Czech: privatizovat — to release government control to private industry
• Dutch: privatiseren — to release government control to private industry
• Esperanto: privatigi — to release government control to private industry
• Finnish: yksityistää — to release government control to private industry
• French: privatiser — to release government control to private industry
• Galician: privatizar — to release government control to private industry
• German: privatisieren — to release government control to private industry
• Greek: αποκρατικοποιώ (apokratikopoió) — to release government control to private industry
• Hungarian: privatizál — to release government control to private industry
• Hungarian: magánosít — to release government control to private industry
• Italian: privatizzare — to release government control to private industry
• Japanese: 私営化する (shieika suru) — to release government control to private industry
• Japanese: 民営化する (min'eika suru) — to release government control to private industry
• Korean: 민영화하다 (minyeonghwahada) — to release government control to private industry
• Macedonian: приватизи́ра (privatizíra) — to release government control to private industry
• Malay: menswastakan — to release government control to private industry
• Mongolian: хувьчлах (xuvʹčlax) — to release government control to private industry
• Occitan: privatizar — to release government control to private industry
• Polish: prywatyzować — to release government control to private industry
• Polish: sprywatyzować — to release government control to private industry
• Portuguese: privatizar — to release government control to private industry
• Russian: приватизи́ровать (privatizírovatʹ) — to release government control to private industry
• Slovak: privatizovať — to release government control to private industry
• Slovak: sprivatizovať — to release government control to private industry
• Spanish: privatizar — to release government control to private industry
• Spanish: piñatizar — to release government control to private industry
• Swedish: privatisera — to release government control to private industry
• Turkish: özelleştirmek — to release government control to private industry
• Ukrainian: приватизува́ти (pryvatyzuváty) — to release government control to private industry
• Vietnamese: tư nhân hoá — to release government control to private industry