privatize

1. V-T If a company, industry, or service that is owned by the state is privatized, the government sells it and makes it a private company. 使私有化[商業(yè)]

Many state-owned companies were privatized. 許多國有公司被私有化了。

...a move to privatize prisons. …一項使監(jiān)獄私有化的舉措。

2. privatizationN-VAR 私有化

...the privatization of government services. …政府服務事業(yè)的私有化。