privatiser
French, verb\pʁi.va.ti.ze\
privatiser is spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Privatiser is a French verb meaning “to privatize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir le capital d’une société à capitaux publics à l’actionnariat privé”.
What does privatiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to privatize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir le capital d’une société à capitaux publics à l’actionnariat privé. 2. Réserver l’ensemble d’un restaurant à un client.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of privatiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- privatisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- privatisé participle past
- privatise first-person indicative present
- privatises indicative present second-person
- privatisons first-person indicative plural
- privatisez indicative plural present
- privatisent indicative plural present
- privatisais first-person imperfect indicative
- privatisait imperfect indicative singular
- privatisions first-person imperfect indicative
- privatisiez imperfect indicative plural
- privatisaient imperfect indicative plural
- privatisai first-person historic indicative
- privatisas historic indicative past
- privatisa historic indicative past
- privatisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce privatiser?
- \pʁi.va.ti.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to privatiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is privatiser in French?
privatiser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).