Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To make mutual.
  • intransitive verb To set up or reorganize (a corporation) so that the majority of common stock is owned by customers or employees.
  • intransitive verb To become mutual.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render mutual; specifically, reorganize (a proprietary or stock insurance company) as a mutual company. See mutual, 4.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make, or to become mutual
  • verb To organize a business (especially a financial business) so that it is owned by its customers (or its employees)

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Examples

  • On Friday, the government got an early taste of that opposition when civil servants who administer the state pension went on strike over proposals to mutualize their department, which will allow holders of pensions to take a stake—but which unions call privatization by the back door.

    U.K. Weighs Privatizing Administrative Services Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • On Friday, the government got an early taste of that opposition when civil servants who administer the state pension went on strike over proposals to mutualize their department, which will allow holders of pensions to take a stake—but which unions call privatization by the back door.

    U.K. Weighs Privatizing Administrative Services Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • And I think that will certainly mutualize risk in the industry.

    Transcript: Robert Greifeld Steve Forbes 2010

  • A proposed financial overhaul would push more derivatives traders to mutualize potential losses through a central clearing entity.

    Options Clearing Corp. to Revamp Default Fund 2010

  • It might benefit a larger group of oppressed people to find a way to mutualize the institution in good hands.

    Oh for Christ’s sake 2008

  • On the other hand, the president and his associates, who have hitherto swayed the destinies of the institution, are accused by the other party of conspiring to mutualize the institution, not for the benefit of the policy-holders, but to conceal the traces of past misdeeds.

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • For instance, the controversy over Hamilton's 1790 proposal that the federal government should take responsibility for state debt is mirrored in today's debate over whether to mutualize euro zone debt, perhaps by issuing common bonds.

    Reuters: Top News 2012

  • She rejected joint "euro bonds," dismissed a proposal to mutualize the euro zone's debt stock, and rebuffed attempts to allow the bloc's rescue fund to borrow from the ECB or the IMF.

    unknown title 2011

  • The issues that divided Paris and Berlin were all too familiar - whether to give supranational EU institutions the power to overrule national budgets and punish deficit offenders; whether to mutualize European debts; whether to let the European Central Bank act as a lender of last resort to states and banks.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • They absolutely add value and will help mutualize and isolate risk related to any individual participant.

    TechWeb 2010

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