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Noun: communization  ,kóm-yu-nu'zey-shun [N. Amer], ,kóm-yu-nI'zey-shun [Brit]
  1. Changing something from private to state ownership or control
    "The communization of farms was a central feature of Soviet agriculture";
    - nationalization, nationalisation [Brit], communisation [Brit]
     
  2. A change from private property to public property owned by the community
    "The communization of land was a key policy in many socialist revolutions";
    - communisation [Brit]
     
  3. The organization of a nation of the basis of communism
    "The communization of China under Mao Zedong transformed the country's economic system";
    - communisation [Brit]

Derived forms: communizations

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

Encyclopedia: Communization