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COMMUNISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into property owned by the state

Example:

The new government communized all banks

Synonyms:

communise; communize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "communise" is one way to...):

nationalise; nationalize (put under state control or ownership)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

commune (a body of people or families living together and sharing everything)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

communisation (a change from private property to public property owned by the community)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles

Example:

communize the government

Synonyms:

bolshevise; bolshevize; communise; communize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "communise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

commune (a body of people or families living together and sharing everything)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

communisation (the organization of a nation of the basis of communism)

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