communalize

verb

1. (transitive)To take property into communal ownership.

   “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).”

   “In fact on two estates, the council had communalized front gardens, turning them into open-plan grass verges because private gardens were so neglected.”

2. (transitive)To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.

   “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.”

   “Can we transcend these common political views and find criteria for a proper way to communalize health care?”

3. (transitive)To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “The Dominion and the Dominion Post communalized the earthquakes in Japan, Chile, and Turkey.”

4. (transitive)To develop into a set of community conventions.

   “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.”