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Definition of Socialise

1. Verb. Take part in social activities; interact with others. "The old man hates to socialize"

2. Verb. Train for a social environment. "The children must be properly socialized"

3. Verb. Prepare for social life. "Children have to be socialized in school"

4. Verb. Make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies. "Health care should be socialized!"

Definition of Socialise

1. Verb. (intransitive) To interact with others ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To instruct, usually subconsciously, in the etiquette of a society ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To take into collective or governmental ownership ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Socialise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Socialise

social stigmas social stratification social structure social studies social support social system social therapy social trading social unit social values

social welfare social work social worker social workers socialisation socialise (current term) socialised socialised medicine socialiser socialisers

socialises socialising socialism socialisms socialist socialist economy socialist realism socialistic socialistically socialists

Literary usage of Socialise

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

1. Christianity and the Social Order by Reginald John Campbell (1907)
"If it be right and just to socialise the natural means of production, it is right and just to socialise the artificial means too; if it be right and just to ..."

2. Christianity and the Social Order by Reginald John Campbell (1907)
"If it be right and just to socialise the natural means of production, it is right and just to socialise the artificial means too ; if it be right and just ..."

3. Christianity and the Social Order by Reginald John Campbell (1907)
"If it be right and just to socialise the natural means of production, it is right and just to socialise the artificial means too; if it be right and just to ..."

4. Christianity and the Social Order by Reginald John Campbell (1907)
"If it be right and just to socialise the natural means of production, it is right and just to socialise the artificial means too ; if it be right and just ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"Theoretically it may be possible to socialise all the means of production, but it can never be possible to socialise the capacities of exceptional men; and, ..."

6. Self-government in Industry by George Douglas Howard Cole (1917)
"We nationalise, but we do not, save to an insignificant extent, socialise. Furthermore, even if we go on to socialise, we couple national ownership with a ..."

7. The Domesday of St. Paul's of the Year M.CC.XXII, Or, Registrum de by St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), Robertus (1858)
"In the Magna Charta of John no notice is taken of socialise; hut, since in the subsequent forest charters they are distinctly prohibited, we may conclude, ..."

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