Noun: communization ,kóm-yu-nu'zey-shun [N. Amer], ,kóm-yu-nI'zey-shun [Brit]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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