Meaning

(transitive) To take property into communal ownership..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.
2. (transitive) To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.
3. (transitive) To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.
4. (transitive) To develop into a set of community conventions.

Example Sentences

For example, in Plato's Republic, marriage was forbidden, wives were "communalized," and children were separated from their parents and considered orphans of the state.

In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours.

First, negdels excluded those who communalized their private livestock and then left the negdel (Nixson and Walters, 2006).

In fact on two estates, the council had communalized front gardens, turning them into open-plan grass verges because private gardens were so neglected.

Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community.

In the mid-eighties, the Hindu Right began to communalize the issue of Muslim Personal Law and UCC in order to push its case against state 'minorityism' or 'favouring of religious minorities'.

Israel, India and Nigeria represent examples of countries where personal status laws are communalized.

Can we transcend these common political views and find criteria for a proper way to communalize health care?

Word Forms

• communalizes
• communalizing
• communalized

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Use communalize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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