Communalize

Quick meaning: Communalize is a verb meaning (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.

Meaning

(transitive) To take property into communal ownership.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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?

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.

Word Forms

• communalizes
• communalizing
• communalized

Synonyms for communalize

Depending on context, synonyms include communalise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include communalise, communize, socialize, communise, share, collectivise.

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