Definition of "privatize"

privatize

/ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized
1. (economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
2. (computing, transitive) To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
  Quotations
  If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.
  1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184
3. (transitive, uncommon) To render a thought or an idea, private in scope.
  Quotations
  The neoliberal, privatizing version of health in which everyone is responsible for themselves, despite disparities in resources.
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 129