English Explanatory Dictionary

communalize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

communalize communalizes communalizing communalized

Etymology

From communal + -ize.

Related words

nationalize privatize

Derived words

communalization
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