verb
- past tense of communize; to make something the property of a community or to organize according to communist principles
Usage: political/economic term
Examples
- The government communized all major industries after the revolution.
- Land that had been privately owned was communized in the 1950s.
- The factory was communized and placed under worker control.
- Agricultural resources were communized to ensure equal distribution.
- The new regime communized housing and eliminated private ownership.
- Many businesses were communized during the socialist transformation.