• Privatize

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    1. To release government control of (a business or industry) to private industry.
    2. (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.

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