COMMUNISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communise mean? 

• COMMUNISE (verb)
  The verb COMMUNISE has 2 senses:

1. make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles

2. make into property owned by the state

  Familiarity information: COMMUNISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they communise    ... he / she / it communises   
Past simple: communised   
Past participle: communised   
-ing form: communising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bolshevise; bolshevize; communise; communize

Context example:

communize the government

Hypernyms (to "communise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

commune (a body of people or families living together and sharing everything)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

communisation (the organization of a nation of the basis of communism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into property owned by the state

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

communise; communize

Context example:

The new government communized all banks

Hypernyms (to "communise" is one way to...):

nationalise; nationalize (put under state control or ownership)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

commune (a body of people or families living together and sharing everything)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

communisation (a change from private property to public property owned by the community)