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  • noun One who, or that which, privatizes.

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Examples

  • He came into office with a script, written by Republican governors in states such as Michigan, as a streamliner, reformer and privatizer.

    McDonnell's VDOT pots of gold Peter Galuszka 2010

  • I'm not corporate, I'm not a privatizer and I want all 3 of my kids to receive their K-12 education through Seattle Public Schools.

    Gregoire Trying to Get Local Buy-In on Education Reform Plan « PubliCola 2010

  • - While Republicans used their slot to name an extreme privatizer to the Social Security board, what did the Dems do?

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 28TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • SOCIAL SECURITY NOMINEES REVISITED - Yesterday, we reported that, by tradition, when a pair of Social Security trustees are nominated, the president defers to the minority party for one and generally defers to the Senate in the process, which led to Mitch McConnell putting privatizer Charles.

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 29TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • While Republicans used their slot to name an extreme privatizer to the Social Security board, what did the Dems do?

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 28TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • SOCIAL SECURITY NOMINEES REVISITED - Yesterday, we reported that, by tradition, when a pair of Social Security trustees are nominated, the president defers to the minority party for one and generally defers to the Senate in the process, which led to Mitch McConnell putting privatizer Charles .

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 29TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Steven Griles and Dirk Kempthorne were Jack Abramoff's men at the Interior Department; Elaine Chao was the worst Secretary of Labor in American history; Margaret Spellings, the clueless Texan privatizer who doled out lucrative contracts to Republican donor companies that run educational testing services, the worst education secretary ever: "No Republican Donor Left Behind."

    Joseph A. Palermo: Bush's Magical Mystery Tour 2009

  • Interestingly, despite a history of defending a would-be Social Security privatizer, that of all things is the issue on which he's declaring his newfound independence.

    FL-22: Yet Another GOP Candidate Declares "Independence" From Bush, Party 2009

  • The stimulus package would allow Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, privatizer extraordinaire in the Chicago Public Schools prior to his work in the Obama administration, to direct nearly $14 billion for "State Incentive Grants" and a $650 million "Innovation Fund."

    Stimulating Corporate Control of Education Jim Horn 2009

  • Interestingly, despite a history of defending a would-be Social Security privatizer, that of all things is the issue on which he's declaring his newfound independence.

    FL-22 2009

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