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  • verb Present participle of privatise.

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Examples

  • It is my intention to follow the example of other municipalities in privatising garbage.

    Mayoral Debate 1994

  • DeHavilland here is probably one of our best examples of success in privatising companies.

    The Economy in Transition 1987

  • World Trade Organisation and all governments at the summit to rethink the idea of privatising health, water and education.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Still many teachers are 'privatising' their ideas and not getting out there and sharing.

    Learn how to Flatten your Classroom at our Workshop Julie Lindsay 2008

  • Teachers belonging to the Unified Trade Union of Education Workers of Peru SUTEP went on strike in public schools to protest the approval of a law on teachers' education, which the government argues will improve education, but teachers see as "privatising" it.

    PERU: Escalating Conflicts Put Pres. García on the Spot Abhay N 2007

  • Yesterday when reading Jason Vest's interesting historical post about the young Dick and Don agitating for executive infallibility back in the 70's, I clicked over to this story in Mother Jones and read this article about how Dick n' Don also had been in favor of "privatising" government functions back in the 70's:

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Government was not "privatising" the functions as the initiative merely brought in advisers to assist in managing facilities, she stressed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Any group involved in "privatising" the civil wars taking place in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Some Pacific island countries 'experience of building community support for reform and dealing with difficult issues such as privatising public enterprises, could also benefit each other countries in the region.

    Australia Assists With Pacific Partnerships 1997

  • The Goldstone Commission was told that AEC's Creed Consultants was "privatising" its operations.

    African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1960

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