Privatize
Alternative forms
- privatise (Commonwealth)
Full definition of privatize
Verb
- To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.
- (computing, transitive) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
- 1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop (page 184)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.