communalize

Transfer to community

To communalize is to transfer something from private to collective ownership or control, or to organize it along communal lines: The government communalized the farmland.

In a different sense, to communalize is to divide along religious or ethnic community lines, particularly in South Asian contexts: Politicians who communalize every issue for electoral gain.

collective

kibbutz

Israeli communal farm

socialize · communize · shared ownership · joint ownership · pooling · mutualize · syndicate · guild · federation · confederation

share

redistribute

Apportion anew among parties

partition · distribute · allot · apportion · pool · shared resources · equalize · democratize · divvy · parceling

public

municipalize

Transfer to local government

public ownership · infrastructure · utilities · services · transportation · commons · public land · public housing · eminent domain · expropriation

Opposites
ownership structure

communalizeprivatize

Transfer to non-government ownership

privatise · denationalize · individualize · corporatize · marketize

social organization

communalizeindividualize

Make distinct for someone

atomize · segregate · fragment · silo · partition

Family

communalism, communality

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