Usually means: Collective ownership, classless, stateless society.
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  1. communism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Communism, communism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. communism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. communism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. communism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Communism, communism: Wordnik
  7. Communism, communism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Communism, communism: Wiktionary
  9. communism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. communism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. communism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. communism: Dictionary.com
  13. communism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. communism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Communism (disambiguation), Communism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Communism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. communism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. communism: Rhymezone
  19. communism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. communism: Free Dictionary
  21. communism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. communism: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. communism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Ism Book (No longer online)

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  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Communism: Inflation Glossary
  3. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Communism (religion), Communism: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. Communism (religion), communism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Communism: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
noun:  Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
noun:  The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
noun:  (rare) Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
noun:  The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
noun:  The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
noun:  (US, informal) A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.

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