communalize

1. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.Examples: "For example, in Plato's Republic, marriage was forbidden, wives were "communalized," and children were separated from their parents and considered orphans of the state."; "In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours."; "First, negdels excluded those who communalized their private livestock and then left the negdel (Nixson and Walters, 2006)."transitive

2. (transitive) To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.Examples: "Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community."; "In the mid-eighties, the Hindu Right began to communalize the issue of Muslim Personal Law and UCC in order to push its case against state 'minorityism' or 'favouring of religious minorities'."; "Israel, India and Nigeria represent examples of countries where personal status laws are communalized."transitive

3. (transitive) To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.Examples: "In general the world exists not only for isolated men but for the community of men; and this is due to the fact that even what is straightforwardly perceptual is communalized."; "In this case the theme becomes: In what way I, in spite of my uniqueness and ownness, am always already “othered” and communalized, i.e., immersed in the lives of Others and incorporating the Others in mine."; "Understand how to "communalize" grief so units can get through difficult times together."transitive

4. (transitive) To develop into a set of community conventions.Examples: "The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns."; "Some communal factors, such as norms for naming and revising products and documents, a company-wide documentation archive, the Ericsson project management model, and more had been communalized into stable, communal factors over many years."transitive