# communalize
## English
### Etymology

From communal +‎ -ize.

### Verb

communalize (third-person singular simple present communalizes, present participle communalizing, simple past and past participle communalized)
* (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.
** 2003, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, page 879: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.
** 2016, Kazuki Hamada, Shufuku Hiraoka, Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies:In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours.
** 2016, Sandagsuren Undargaa, Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources:First, negdels excluded those who communalized their private livestock and then left the negdel (Nixson and Walters, 2006).
** 2021, Anne Power, Property Before People:In fact on two estates, the council had communalized front gardens, turning them into open-plan grass verges because private gardens were so neglected.
* (transitive) To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.
** 1979, John Friedmann, Clyde Weaver, Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning, page 195:Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community.
** 1997, Achin Vanaik, The Furies of Indian Communalism, page 229: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'.
** 2004, Lynn Welchman, Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, page 257:Israel, India and Nigeria represent examples of countries where personal status laws are communalized.
** 2007, Deirdre Maria Beneken genaamd Kolmer, Family care and care responsibility, page 48:Can we transcend these common political views and find criteria for a proper way to communalize health care?
* (transitive) To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.
** 1986, Steven W. Laycock, James G. Hart, Essays in Phenomenological Theology: 1866-1997, page 177: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.
** 2009, J.G. Hart, Who One Is: Book 1: Meontology of the "I":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.
** 2011, Naval War College Review - Volume 64, Issues 1-4, page 17:Understand how to "communalize" grief so units can get through difficult times together.
** 2013, Tanweer Fazal, Minority Nationalisms in South Asia, page 128:As a result of this attempt by the Pakistan authorities to communalize this crisis, the percentage of Hindu refugees fleeing into India increase manifold in relation to Muslim refugees.
** 2022, Thomas Jamieson, Douglas A Van Belle, That Could Be Us, page 60:The Dominion and the Dominion Post communalized the earthquakes in Japan, Chile, and Turkey.
* (transitive) To develop into a set of community conventions.
** 1994, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics - Volumes 23-24, page 35:The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns.
** 2021, Nik Rushdi Hassan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Advancing Information Systems Theories: Rationale and Processes, page 420: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.

#### Derived terms

* communalization

### See also

* nationalize
* privatize