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alpha privative, from
Ancient Gr**** ἀ-, ἀν-, from Proto-****enic *ə-; e.g. apathetic, abiogenesis.
These all stem from a PIE
syllabic nasal privative *n̥-...
- An
alpha privative or, rarely,
privative a (from
Latin alpha prīvātīvum, from
Ancient Gr**** α στερητικόν) is the
prefix a- or an- (before vowels) that...
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public sector into the
private sector. It is also
sometimes used as a
synonym for
deregulation when a
heavily regulated private company or
industry becomes...
- Look up
private or
privates in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Private or
privates may
refer to: "In
Private", by
Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album...
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privative adjective is an
adjective which seems to
exclude members of the
extension of the noun
which it modifies. For instance, "fake" is
privative since...
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abessive (abbreviated ABE or ABESS),
caritive (abbreviated CAR) and
privative (abbreviated PRIV) is the
grammatical case
expressing the lack or absence...
- A
privately held
company (or
simply a
private company) is a
company whose shares and
related rights or
obligations are not
offered for
public subscription...
- evil is
privative, that is, it
consists in the
absence of good,
stripped of its
theological trappings, is unconvincing.
There is
nothing privative about...
- the
prefix is used on both
nouns and adjectives. It can be
considered a
privative prefix specifically denoting disproximation, i.e. that the
resulting word...
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Private equity (PE) is
stock in a
private company that does not
offer stock to the
general public. In the
field of finance,
private equity is offered...
