Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To subject to public ownership or control.
  • transitive verb To convert to Communist principles or control.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make common; make (something) the property of the community.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make something the property of a community.
  • verb To impose Communist ideals on people.
  • verb To become or be made communistic.
  • verb To come under public ownership or control.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
  • verb make into property owned by the state

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Examples

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    Not My Tribe 2009

  • He's just playing the game that GE / NBC is playing: they're betting their last dollar that Obama is going to 'communize' the media and put all their dying networks on the government payroll, with the Obama media czar issuing their marching orders every day.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009

  • Caldara baselessly suggested Obama has proposed to "communize" health care Daily Sentinel's Harmon mischaracterized Employee Free Choice Act

    Not My Tribe 2009

  • Caldara baselessly suggested Obama has proposed to "communize" health care Daily Sentinel's Harmon mischaracterized Employee Free Choice Act

    Not My Tribe 2009

  • Caldara baselessly suggested Obama has proposed to "communize" health care Daily Sentinel's Harmon mischaracterized Employee Free Choice Act

    Not My Tribe 2009

  • The commies in the former USSR and present day China wanted to communize America, and put a sinister plan in place decades ago that consisted of promoting pornography and excessive video game playing to corrupt our youth and make us all beholden to "Big Brother" government.

    You said it | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Mao's next fevered move to push China into socialism was the Great Leap Forward to communize agriculture.

    Deng's Revolution 2008

  • Accuse us of wanting to communize women, but you bourgeoisie see women as an instrument of production [words indistinct] and, not satisfied with prostituting the daughters and wives of the workers, the derive pleasure from reusing each other. [applause] What accusations!

    MEETS CONCEPCTION STUDENTS 1971

  • You bourgeoisie accuse us of wanting to communize women.

    MEETS CONCEPCTION STUDENTS 1971

  • The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives.

    CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH 1967

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