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communalization

communalization

9.1
Putting private property or services into community ownership so people share control
  • noun
  • /kəˌmjunəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
translation icon : comunalización
  • The communalization of water resources helped ensure fair access for all residents.

Examples

  • After years of debate, the city approved the communalization of local healthcare services.

  • Many rural areas have benefited from the communalization of agricultural land.

  • The communalization of the park has brought the community together.

  • Many believe that communalization can improve local services.

  • The communalization of water resources helped ensure fair access for all residents.

  • After years of debate, the city approved the communalization of local healthcare services.

  • Many rural areas have benefited from the communalization of agricultural land.

Synonyms

collectivization
vscommunalization
3 9.6

An action that makes farms and factories owned by the government or community

focuses on transferring property or services rather than remaking whole economy
communization
vscommunalization
  • Formal
1 9.9

The process of moving property and businesses from private owners to the state or community

is a neutral transfer to community control without explicit ideological goals
mutualization
vscommunalization
  • Specialized
8.2

Changing a company so its members own and control it

aims at whole community ownership or control rather than ownership by members

Antonyms

privatization
  • US
61 6.7

Selling a public company or service to private owners

How Communal

communalization
9.1
collective
47 4.3
community
∞ 2.8
sharing
99 1.0

Surface Forms

communalization singular
communalizations plural

Morphology

communalization = communalize (transparent) = commune + al + ize + ation

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ation' to 'communalize' (itself 'communal' + '-ize'), so the process meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Communalization comes from commune, a word meaning 'common' or 'shared', and the ending -ization meaning 'process of making'. It is like moving something from private hands into community control, so communalization means putting property or services under shared ownership.