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  • verb Alternative form of communalize.

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  • verb make something the property of the commune or community

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Examples

  • Is not appropriate to communalise all the means of creating and distributing wealth

    Financial war 2007

  • Acts like these were used to further communalise the situation and impose further draconian measures.

    Five Labour Councillors Defect to Ealing Southall Tories 2007

  • We find in their doctrine, and in their legal and religious codes, not only the idea of multiple union claimed by Enfantin and his forty disciples of Ménilmontant, but also the theories of Buchez, who desired to free labour from the servitude of wages, to bring about solidarity of production, and to communalise capital, after first setting aside an inalienable reserve.

    Modern Saints and Seers Jean Finot 1890

  • The party on Saturday indeed served an ace for Sania by terming Thackeray's comments as typical of his tendency to ` communalise 'everything.

    The Times of India 2010

  • "They want to communalise the atmosphere before the election," he said adding that use of such provocative language against a community before the election is highly condemnable.

    Times Now 2009

  • The project to communalise the police was put in place around then.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • Union Minister for Minority Affairs, AR Antulay, gave expression to these anxieties among those who are suspicious of the Hindutva Parivar and their relentless, sinister attempts to communalise society.

    unknown title 2009

  • The controversy arises not from what Singh has written but from who he is: a founding member of the BJP, a party that has long attempted to communalise or saffronise India's history.

    unknown title 2009

  • "Let ` s not communalise art and artists," wrote one of the 100-plus signatories, Radha M. Nagraj.

    unknown title 2009

  • Union Minister for Minority Affairs, AR Antulay, gave expression to these anxieties among those who are suspicious of the Hindutva Parivar and their relentless, sinister attempts to communalise society.

    unknown title 2009

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