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Definition of Communalize
1. Verb. Make something the property of the commune or community.
Definition of Communalize
1. Verb. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Communalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Communalize
Literary usage of Communalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... there are two principal missions,—one for the Wandering and nomadic Barbarians,
whom we are trying at the same time to [9] communalize ..."
2. Some Impressions of My Elders by St. John Greer Ervine (1922)
"When he tells me that the Irish peasant will resist the attempts of the Bolshevist
to communalize his land, I ask him whether the Irish peasant is equally ..."
3. The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1907)
"It would be necessary to communalize the railways, that the citizens might get
food and work, and lastly, to prevent the waste of supplies, ..."
4. Capitalist and Laborer: An Open Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith, D. C. L by John Spargo (1907)
"... Socialism is, in its last and deepest analysis, an effort to communalize the
full benefits of this communism of production. ..."
5. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1920)
"In other words, we must communalize the religious school. We must provide for
connection of the school with all of the other serious work of the ..."
6. How to Meet Hard Times: A Program for the Prevention and Relief of Abnormal by William Delavan Baldwin, New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Unemployment (1917)
"... the very spirit of social life which is possible only if individuals are
willing to a certain extent to communalize their services and contributions. ..."