privatize
pri vuh tahyz
- v change from governmental to private control or ownership
The oil industry was privatized
- But it didn't get past Jones, 50, the grandson of a golf-course developer of Welsh ancestry, whose previous claims to fame were a failed attempt to privatize Pennsylvania's state .
- And even though he managed to get a bill passed to privatize the postal system, most of his promised reforms have yet to bear fruit.
- And I want to just mention on the issue of Social Security, 'McCain wants to quote privatize Social Security.