Reprivatization
Origin
From - + privatization; coined as early as 1936. Possibly based on German Reprivatisierung ("reprivatization").
Full definition of reprivatization
Noun
reprivatization
(plural reprivatizations)- (economics) The process or an instance of returning to private ownership.
- 1936, August 1, ‘Re-privatisation,’ as it is called, has, however, been under way in the cases of all three banks. Some 40 per cent of the G.D. Bank’s holding of Deutsche-Disconto shares had passed back into private hands by the end of 1935. The new advance of bank shares to above par ought to smooth the way for complete ‘re-privatisation.’
- 2009, March 8, Alan S. Blinder, Nationalize? Hey, Not So Fast, POLITICAL OBSTACLES The process of nationalization and reprivatization went amazingly well in Sweden partly because it was remarkably free of political interference.