deprivatizing

Ending private ownership

Deprivatizing is returning something to public ownership or control after it had been privatized.

The term appears in debates about essential services like water, healthcare, or transportation: The city is deprivatizing its bus system after the private operator failed to maintain routes.

It reverses the transfer of public assets to private hands.

nationalization

expropriation

Government taking private property

nationalize · state ownership · public sector · public utility · public enterprise · state monopoly · government takeover · renationalization · state control · socialization

ideology

socialism

Communal economic control

egalitarianism · communal ownership · anti-capitalism · leftist · progressive · social democracy · public good · common ownership · cooperative · labor movement

governance

legislation

Official enactment of statutes

public-sector · mandate · public welfare · bureaucracy · government oversight · civic · public authority · state intervention · public administration · governmental

accountability

transparency

State of being see-through

public scrutiny · democratic control · citizen oversight · accountability · auditing · freedom of information · public participation · civic engagement · stakeholder input · democratic governance

accessibility

universal access

Unrestricted entry for all

community service · public benefit · social equity · equal opportunity · shared access · social inclusion

Opposites
ownership transfer direction

deprivatizingprivatizing

Selling government assets

privatising · denationalizing · privatization · selling off · deregulating

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