privatizar
Portuguese, verb/pɾi.va.t͡ʃiˈza(ʁ)/
privatizar is spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,900th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Privatizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to privatize (release government control to private industry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “passar o controle de uma empresa estatal para o setor privado”.
What does privatizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to privatize (release government control to private industry)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passar o controle de uma empresa estatal para o setor privado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of privatizar
- privatizo first-person present singular
- privatizei first-person preterite singular
- privatizado participle past
- privatizares infinitive second-person singular
- privatizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- privatizardes infinitive plural second-person
- privatizarem infinitive plural third-person
- privatizando gerund
- privatizados masculine participle past
- privatizada feminine participle past
- privatizadas feminine participle past
- privatizas indicative present second-person
- privatiza indicative present singular
- privatizamos first-person indicative plural
- privatizais indicative plural present
- privatizam indicative plural present
- privatizava first-person imperfect indicative
- privatizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce privatizar?
- Brazil /pɾi.va.t͡ʃiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾi.va.t͡ʃiˈza(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to privatizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is privatizar in Portuguese?
privatizar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).