Commune in a sentence as a noun

In other words, he's building a private campground, not a commune.

You are running a business, not a hippie commune.

Stallman seems to think we all live in some free love hippie commune where we can all just give source code away.

A daily 45 minute commune through barely moving traffic2.

I lived on a hippy commune from 1974 to 1979 - we had our own currency then, called 'trash' in which we could buy anything we wanted.

I was only allowed into the bookshop, and every single book and CD was by the commune leader.

I've seen business people turning up at the commune to hand over bags full of cash without uttering a single word.

Commune in a sentence as a verb

The commune has been functional since the 60s, sucking up its members' wealth in exchange for living under the direction of a charismatic leader.

But ultimately, seven billion people are never going to form some totally sweet Zapatista-style worldwide commune.

If you think ostensibly "flat" social structures can't be gamed in stunningly unpleasant ways, then I have a bridge to every 1970s anarcho-syndicalist commune in Brooklyn for sale.

Short of living on a commune and totally removing yourself from the broader economy, what can people actually do to avoid NSA surveillance as it exists today, let alone a decade from now?

There are only so many ways that people self-organize, and the perfect ideal of a peaceful anarchist commune is not one such method that is stable or practical with our current level of technology.

So what he is essentially saying is, they're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, taking it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, and all the decision of that officer must be approved at a bi-weekly meeting by a two-thirds majority.

Commune definitions

noun

the smallest administrative district of several European countries

noun

a body of people or families living together and sharing everything

verb

communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature"

verb

receive Communion, in the Catholic church

See also: communicate