to make (property) public; nationalize to make (a person or country) communist
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com•mu•nize
(kom′yə nīz′),USA pronunciation v.t., -nized, -niz•ing.
com′mu•ni•za′tion, n.
- Government(often cap.) to impose Communist principles or systems of government on (a country or people).
- Governmentto make communistic.
- Governmentto make (something, as land or a house) the property of the community;
to transfer from individual to community ownership.
- back formation from communization, equivalent. to Latin commūn(is) common + -ization 1885–90
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