Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The making of anything the public property of the community.

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  • noun The act or process of communizing.

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  • noun changing something from private to state ownership or control
  • noun the organization of a nation of the basis of communism
  • noun a change from private property to public property owned by the community

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Examples

  • The only pseudo-victory to their credit consists in pushing Negri out of the spotlight by ushering "communization" and

    Anarchist news dot org - Comments 2010

  • Just another way for this Government to come in, through the back door, with dismantling the current health care insurance programs over a five year period, in attempting to achieve their political goal of the complete communization of Americans health care Insurance plans, treatments and benefits across the States.

    It’s not even a ‘Battle’ of the Signs. No contest. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • However, it will guarantee and ensure his complete communization of health care plans, treatments and benefits across the States whether you like it or not.

    It’s not even a ‘Battle’ of the Signs. No contest. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • We must also salute Gorbachev's chief lieutenant and powerhouse behind the reform movement, former Georgian KGB chief and Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Schevardnadze, who urged total de-communization and disarmament.

    Eric Margolis: The Man Who Did Not Start World War III 2009

  • Like President Kennedy and so many Americans conditioned by the Cold War, he believed in the domino theory that assumed a defeat in Vietnam would lead to the communization of all of Southeast Asia.

    Murray Fromson: And That's the Way It Was... 2009

  • That, in fact, the West would not push for de-communization.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009 2009

  • SIMES: Well, de-communization, that's a different story.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009 2009

  • Goldstein argues that Kennedy, while accepting the domino theory, would have lived with its consequences, including the communization of all of Southeast Asia, rather than send a large expeditionary force to Southeast Asia.

    What Vietnam Teaches Us 2008

  • They advocated that profit from production should be the chief goal and opposed communization of land ,professing that peasants should get a private plot.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Abhay N 2006

  • They advocated that profit from production should be the chief goal and opposed communization of land ,professing that peasants should get a private plot.

    Achievements of Mao Tse Tung Abhay N 2006

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