私营化，私有化： 指把国有企业出售给私营部门，一般通过在股票市场挂牌上市。与国有化相对。也指使公司私有化，即某个投资者买下公司发行在外的全部股票，然后从股市摘牌。

Privatisation: The sale of state-owned companies to the private sector, normally through a stock market listing. The opposite of nationalisation. The term is also sometimes used in the sense of taking a company private– i.e. when an investor buys all of a company’s outstanding shares and de-lists it from the stock market.

例证：他表示，中国的金融系统需要调整资本结构，并以中国建设银行（China Construction Bank ）和中国银行（Bank of China ）将要进行的私有化为例。预期这两家银行的发行规模都将达数十亿美元。

EXAMPLE: He says the Chinese financial system needs to be recapitalised, and points to the upcoming privatisations of China Construction Bank and Bank of China. Both are expected to be multi-billion-dollar listings.