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Definition of Communize

1. Verb. Make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles. "Communize the government"

2. Verb. Make into property owned by the state. "The new government communized all banks"

Definition of Communize

1. Verb. To make something the property of a community. ¹

2. Verb. To impose Communist ideals on people. ¹

3. Verb. To become or be made communistic. ¹

4. Verb. To come under public ownership or control. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Communize

1. [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Communize

community of interests community of scholars community owned community ownership community pharmacy services community property community psychiatry community psychology community service community spirit

communitywide communitywise communiversity communization communizations communize (current term) communized communizes communizing commutabilities

commutability commutable commutableness commutant commutants commutate commutated commutates commutating commutation

Literary usage of Communize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1906)
"The surplus left over it would communize" (p. 76). ... 77), concluding that " it is possible to communize land and capital, without recourse to ..."

2. The New Age, and Concordium Gazette (1845)
"Know, then, oh people ! that I come not to do away with the work of Jesus, but to extend it from typicality to actuality, to communize it, and to fulfil the ..."

3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1901)
"The monopoly and the Church grow on the same spiritual root, and you cannot pull up one without pulling up the other; or, rather, you cannot communize the ..."

4. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"an official report. community, abbr. com. communize*, to make common. comp., comparative, comparison, compile, -ed. ..."

5. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"mitted to The Associated Press that Hungary had agitators in the legation who were attempting to communize Vienna. Advices reaching Washington on April 7 ..."

6. Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published by John Ruskin (1880)
"... are by the most solemn Natural Laws, indeed our neighbour's " property," and any attempts to communize these have always ended, and will always end, ..."

7. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... aided by the evolution of those cultural agencies which extend, reenforce, and communize man's purely bodily functions. During the last century, ..."

8. Zionism and World Politics: A Study in History and Social Psychology by Horace Meyer Kallen (1921)
"... suffused with anti-Semitism, these peasants were eager to possess the land, but were not eager to communize its management and control. ..."

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