1. Changing something from private to state ownership or control
   "The communisation of key industries was a controversial policy";
   - nationalization, nationalisation [Brit], communization
    
2. The organization of a nation of the basis of communism
   "The communisation of China under Mao Zedong transformed the country's economic system";
   - communization
    
3. A change from private property to public property owned by the community
   "The communisation of land was a key policy in many socialist revolutions";
   - communization

Derived forms: communisations

Type of: change, constitution, establishment, formation, organisation [Brit], organization, social control

Antonym: denationalisation [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Communisation