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communalize en · VERB

Etymology

From communal + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.
   • In fact on two estates, the council had communalized front gardens, turning them into open-plan grass verges because private gardens were so neglected. 2021, Anne Power, Property Before People:
   • First, negdels excluded those who communalized their private livestock and then left the negdel (Nixson and Walters, 2006). 2016, Sandagsuren Undargaa, Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources:
   • For example, in Plato's Republic, marriage was forbidden, wives were "communalized," and children were separated from their parents and considered orphans of the state. 2003, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, page 879:
   • In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours. 2016, Kazuki Hamada, Shufuku Hiraoka, Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies:
2. (transitive) To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.
   • In the mid-eighties, the Hindu Right began to communalize the issue of Muslim Personal Law and UCC in order to push its case against state 'minorityism' or 'favouring of religious minorities'. 1997, Achin Vanaik, The Furies of Indian Communalism, page 229:
   • Can we transcend these common political views and find criteria for a proper way to communalize health care? 2007, Deirdre Maria Beneken genaamd Kolmer, Family care and care responsibility, page 48:
   • Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community. 1979, John Friedmann, Clyde Weaver, Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning, page 195:
   • Israel, India and Nigeria represent examples of countries where personal status laws are communalized. 2004, Lynn Welchman, Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, page 257:
3. (transitive) To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.
   • Understand how to "communalize" grief so units can get through difficult times together. 2011, Naval War College Review - Volume 64, Issues 1-4, page 17:
   • In this case the theme becomes: In what way I, in spite of my uniqueness and ownness, am always already “othered” and communalized, i.e., immersed in the lives of Others and incorporating the Others in mine. 2009, J.G. Hart, Who One Is: Book 1: Meontology of the "I":
   • The Dominion and the Dominion Post communalized the earthquakes in Japan, Chile, and Turkey. 2022, Thomas Jamieson, Douglas A Van Belle, That Could Be Us, page 60:
   • In general the world exists not only for isolated men but for the community of men; and this is due to the fact that even what is straightforwardly perceptual is communalized. 1986, Steven W. Laycock, James G. Hart, Essays in Phenomenological Theology: 1866-1997, page 177:
   • As a result of this attempt by the Pakistan authorities to communalize this crisis, the percentage of Hindu refugees fleeing into India increase manifold in relation to Muslim refugees. 2013, Tanweer Fazal, Minority Nationalisms in South Asia, page 128:
4. (transitive) To develop into a set of community conventions.
   • The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns. 1994, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics - Volumes 23-24, page 35:
   • Some communal factors, such as norms for naming and revising products and documents, a company-wide documentation archive, the Ericsson project management model, and more had been communalized into stable, communal factors over many years. 2021, Nik Rushdi Hassan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Advancing Information Systems Theories: Rationale and Processes, page 420:

Forms

Deriveds

communalization

Relateds

nationalize · privatize