communalize

American  

[kuh-myoon-l-ahyz, kom-yuh-nl-] / kəˈmjun lˌaɪz, ˈkɒm jə nl- /

especially British, communalise

verb (used with object)

communalized, communalizing

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

   The town communalized the estate for a public park.

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communalize British  

/ ˈkɒmjʊnəˌlaɪz /

verb

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

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Other Word Forms

• communalization
  noun
• communalizer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of communalize

First recorded in 1880–85; communal + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

communalized communalizing

"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 ● Aug. 19, 2012

Young Roger Schutz went to France looking for a place to organize a disciplined, communalized way of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The newly communalized armies, now that the British troops were inactivated, were like bodies from which the bones had been drawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly 100% of industry, wholesale trade and export-import trade, and 80% of shops have been communalized.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

Almost invariably, collectivizing or communalizing farms deadens initiative.

From Time Magazine Archive