[f. next + -ATION.] The rendering of anything communal; esp. the making of property in which the public are interested (as land, water-works, gas-works) communal, or the property of the (local) community, to be managed for the common good.
1883. St. James’s Gaz., 1 Dec., 3/1. All the most useful achievements in recent legislation and administration have been in the direction of nationalization or communalization.
1883. Lavaleye, in Pall Mall G., 21 Dec., 2/1. I wish now to explain in a few words what I mean by communalization of land.
1887. Pall Mall G., 8 Sept., 1/1. What is wanted is … land communalization or land municipalization.
