communalize

[ kuh-myoon-l-ahyz, kom-yuh-nl- ]

verb (used with object)

, com·mu·nal·ized, com·mu·nal·iz·ing.

1. to make communal; to make (land, a business, etc.) the property of the community:

   The town communalized the estate for a public park.

communalize

/ ˈkɒmjʊnəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. tr to render (something) the property of a commune or community

Derived Forms

• ˌcommunaliˈzation, noun
• ˈcommunalˌizer, noun

Other Words From

• com·munal·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of communalize¹

First recorded in 1880–85; communal + -ize

Example Sentences

Green Lake Community Center is run down like Havana, Cuba, and Seattle’s Pronto communalized bicycle program is history  like the Berlin Wall in 1989.

From Seattle Times

"The conflict in Assam is getting communalized," said Zoya Hasan, a political scientist at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and former member of the National Commission for Minorities.

From Reuters

The strength of such a nation will be indefinitely greater than that of any other less personalized and so less communalized nation.

From Project Gutenberg

Furthermore, Japanese civilization, like that of the entire Orient, with its highly communalized social order, is an expression of passive submission to superior authority.

From Project Gutenberg