Explore Privatising through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Privatising meaning
present participle and gerund of privatise
Using Privatising
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of privatise
- In the example corpus, privatising often appears in combinations such as: privatising the, by privatising, and privatising.
Context around Privatising
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Privatising
- In this selection, "privatising" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, industry, consider, heseltine, selected, major and bleeding stand out and add context to how "privatising" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include action and privatising public services and company before privatising it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "privatising" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with privatising
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
IDC is an initiative that will benefit future generations not privatising everything. (12 words)
Calls to fix Eskom by privatising it and selling assets have been met with opposition, however. (16 words)
He said, “Privatising therefore became the only option since government has developmental challenges with slim resources. (16 words)
Through Bell I worked to help get Sweden into the EU – an institution he despised – and I cut my political teeth working with Alan Johnson, then head of the postal workers’ union, to stop Michael Heseltine privatising the Post Office. (40 words)
He said that the BPE, in the execution of its mandate was reforming and privatising for the benefit of Nigeria’s economic recovery and the social wellbeing of the people. (30 words)
This was done by floating the dollar, introducing more competition into major sectors, demolishing tariff protection for industry, privatising major public entities and bringing in sweeping deregulation. (27 words)
Example sentences (16)
Again, it said GH¢20 billion could be saved by privatising selected State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Tier-2 pension fund to drive efficiency and productivity.
This was done by floating the dollar, introducing more competition into major sectors, demolishing tariff protection for industry, privatising major public entities and bringing in sweeping deregulation.
The IMF would require tough reforms: Increasing energy prices and privatising bleeding public sector firms like steel mills and the national carrier PIA.
Cutting the corporate tax rate, penalising workers for taking industrial action and privatising public services assists this grotesque transfer of wealth.
Just look at the number of post offices that have closed, the chaos of certain train services, the catastrophic results of privatising care homes and NHS trusts.
Alemayehu Geda (Prof.), a university lecturer and macroeconomist, believes that the government should give some time to the company before privatising it.
As Peter Hitchens said - hardly anyone would consider privatising the navy a good idea, so the idea that some things are best provided by.
Calls to fix Eskom by privatising it and selling assets have been met with opposition, however.
IDC is an initiative that will benefit future generations not privatising everything.
President Paul Kagame has in the past said that the country was open to privatising RwandAir at the right time and if it made business sense.
Through Bell I worked to help get Sweden into the EU – an institution he despised – and I cut my political teeth working with Alan Johnson, then head of the postal workers’ union, to stop Michael Heseltine privatising the Post Office.
He, however, said the oversight visit was to ensure that objective of privatising the sector by Federal Government was being archived, especially in delivering power to Nigerians.
He said, “Privatising therefore became the only option since government has developmental challenges with slim resources.
He said that the BPE, in the execution of its mandate was reforming and privatising for the benefit of Nigeria’s economic recovery and the social wellbeing of the people.
This is because they see privatising The Village School would cause long-term harm to pupils’ education.
Seaga immediately began to reverse the policies of his predecessor by privatising industry and seeking closer ties with the USA.
Common combinations with privatising
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- privatising the 5×
- by privatising 3×
- and privatising 3×
- of privatising 2×
- privatising it 2×