privatizations
UK spellingprivatisations
- 1Plural of privatization.
A wave of privatizations transferred state industries into private hands across Eastern Europe.
Critics argued that the rushed privatizations left workers without protection.
Note
Counting is what this form does. Each transfer of a company from state to private hands becomes one event among several, so a wave or a decade can hold many of them. The singular can also stand uncounted for the policy in the abstract, and that use has no plural. The uncommon sense of rendering a thought private in scope is countable too, though its plural is rarely needed.
privatizations is a form of privatization
privatization, noun: The transfer of a company or organization from government ownership and control into private hands. Full entry
- Forms
- privatizationprivatizations plural
- Spelling
- privatization → privatizations: add -s
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