privatisation

1. 1.

   changing something from state to private ownership or control

   Synonymsdenationalizationdenationalisationprivatization

   Broadersocial control

Other forms of privatisation

plural

privatisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about privatisation

What does privatisation mean?

privatisation means "changing something from state to private ownership or control".

How many syllables are in privatisation?

privatisation has 5 syllables: pri-va-ti-sa-tion. The stress falls on "pri". In IPA it is /ˈpɹaɪvətəˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for privatisation?

Close synonyms include denationalization, denationalisation, privatization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is privatisation a common word?

privatisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with privatisation?

94 words rhyme with privatisation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.