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- verb Present participle of
common .
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Examples
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Therefore, they are better described with a verb ( "commoning") instead of a noun (commons).
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"regulated capitalism" through massive enclosures of the commons and the planetary intensification of a form of social production, of "commoning", which is based on a civil war of all against all, what they call "competition"
P2P Foundation 2009
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"regulated capitalism" through massive enclosures of the commons and the planetary intensification of a form of social production, of "commoning", which is based on a civil war of all against all, what they call "competition"
P2P Foundation 2009
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Both the Boston group and the Caribbean community represent examples of "commoning," which means putting the ideas of the Commons into practice in your personal life.
Jay Walljasper: Twelve Reasons You'll Hear More About the Commons in 2012 Jay Walljasper 2012
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The Charter of the Forest protects the rights of commoners to commoning.
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That's a verb: commoning, which encompasses the rights to use and maintain forests and wild places, to allow livestock to forage, to gather wood, berries, mushrooms, water.
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However, if I had two mains connections to the house, I don't think I'd be able to common the neutrals since they could come from different transformers with different neutral connections, so commoning them could in principle cause large currents to flow...
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The Counsale, efter consultatioun, thocht nocht expedient that the saidis Erle and Priour should talk with the Quene in ony sort; for hir former practises put all men in suspitioun, that some deceat lurked under suche colorat commoning.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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But it wasn't long afore my father began to wonder within himself what this unlikely thing could want there at the Two Lads, which, as you know, is scarcely two miles off yonder, and on the highest and ugliest part of the whole commoning; a place, too, which is always said to have a bad name sticking to it.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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The activity of commoning is conducted through labor with other resources; it does not make a division between "labor" and "natural resources."
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“It’s the act of commoning, or creating commons, as a way of life,” Estigarribia said.
The Agitator | Hazlitt Kelli Korducki 2024
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