| DEPRIVATION | • deprivation n. (Countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. • deprivation n. (Uncountable) The state of being deprived. • deprivation n. (Countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| DEPRIVATIVE | • deprivative adj. Depriving. • DEPRIVATIVE adj. serving to deprive. |
| DEPRIVEMENT | • deprivement n. Deprivation. • DEPRIVEMENT n. the act of depriving. |
| PRIVATEERED | • privateered v. Simple past tense and past participle of privateer. • PRIVATEER v. to operate as a pirate. |
| PRIVATENESS | • privateness n. The quality or state of being private. • PRIVATENESS n. the state of being private. |
| PRIVATISERS | • privatisers n. Plural of privatiser. • PRIVATISER n. one who transfers to private ownership, denationalises, also PRIVATIZER. |
| PRIVATISING | • privatising v. Present participle of privatise. • PRIVATISE v. to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize, also PRIVATIZE. |
| PRIVATIVELY | • privatively adv. In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively. • PRIVATIVE adv. indicating absence, deprivation or negation. |
| PRIVATIZERS | • privatizers n. Plural of privatizer. • PRIVATIZER n. one who transfers to private ownership, denationalises, also PRIVATISER. |
| PRIVATIZING | • privatizing v. Present participle of privatize. • privatizing n. Privatization. • PRIVATIZE v. to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize, also PRIVATISE. |
| PRIVILEGING | • privileging v. Present participle of privilege. • privileging n. The process by which something is made privileged. • PRIVILEGE v. to grant a privilege to. |
| REPRIVATISE | • reprivatise v. Alternative spelling of reprivatize. • REPRIVATISE v. to privatize again, also REPRIVATIZE. |
| REPRIVATIZE | • reprivatize v. (Economics) To privatize a company that was previously nationalized. • REPRIVATIZE v. to privatize again, also REPRIVATISE. |
| SEMIPRIVATE | • semiprivate adj. More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that… • SEMIPRIVATE adj. partly private. |