Definition of communize in English:
communize
(British communise)
verb ˈkɒmjʊnʌɪzˈkɑmjəˌnaɪz
[with object]rare Cause (a country or economic activity) to be organized on the principles of communism.
〈罕〉使（国家，经济活动）共产化；使（人）信仰共产主义
the region was communized after World War II
Example sentencesExamples
- As long as the country is dreaming of communizing the entire peninsula, sanctions of any kind would not work well.
- Whatever else happens, we must not stick to the ideas of communizing the South or absorbing the North.
- In the immediate postwar period, under Tito's leadership, Yugoslavia became the most communized country of Eastern Europe.
- His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people.
- The Soviet Union communized the region after World War II, and it has adopted liberal democracy in the last decade, at least in principle.
Derivatives
noun kɒmjʊnʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
rare The trigger for this would be fear that communization of the South was a distinct possibility.
Example sentencesExamples
- Since Stalin had purged the Polish Communist Party in 1938, killing most of its leading members after luring them to the USSR, there were very few party members available to assist in the process of communization.
- It said the North has not moved away from the policy of ‘communization’ of the peninsula despite its recent attempts to reduce tensions.
Definition of communize in US English:
communize
(British communise)
verbˈkɑmjəˌnaɪzˈkämyəˌnīz
[with object]rare Cause (a country, people, or economic activity) to be organized on the principles of communism.
〈罕〉使（国家，经济活动）共产化；使（人）信仰共产主义
the region was communized after World War II
Example sentencesExamples
- In the immediate postwar period, under Tito's leadership, Yugoslavia became the most communized country of Eastern Europe.
- As long as the country is dreaming of communizing the entire peninsula, sanctions of any kind would not work well.
- The Soviet Union communized the region after World War II, and it has adopted liberal democracy in the last decade, at least in principle.
- His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people.
- Whatever else happens, we must not stick to the ideas of communizing the South or absorbing the North.