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privatize
privatize -tized -tiz·ing : to make private ;esp : to change (as a business or industry) from public to private control or ownership pri·va·ti·za·tion [prī-və-tə-zā-shən, -tī-] n
beneficiary
beneficiary pl: -ries : a person or entity (as a charity or estate) that receives a benefit from something: as a : the person or entity named or otherwise entitled to receive the principal or income...
capricious
capricious 1 : governed or characterized by impulse or whim: as a : lacking a rational basis b : likely to change suddenly 2 : not supported by the weight of evidence or established rules of...
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Mainprize
Mainprize [fr. main, Fr., and pris, taken]. The writ of mainprize, manucaptio, was a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties
imprison
imprison : to confine in prison esp. as punishment for a crime compare false imprisonment im·pris·on·ment n
Emissitious
Looking or narrowly examining prying
Esnecy
Esnecy [fr. 'snesia, Lat.], a private prerogative allowed to the eldest coparcener, where an estate descended to daughters for want of an heir male, to choose first after the inheritance is divided, Fleta, 1. 5, c....
Prize
To move with a lever to force up or open to pry
nosy
Offensively or intrusively curious prying nosey as he flipped through my letters in his nosy way
nosey
Offensively or intrusively curious prying nosy as a nosy neighbor
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