0 a group of families or single people who live and work together sharing possessions and responsibilities: --
1 in some countries, a unit of local government --
2 to get very close to someone or something by exchanging feelings or thoughts: --
3 the smallest unit of local government in some countries --
4 in some countries, a unit of local government: --
In Italy, the commune is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions.
5 a group of people who live and work together on land that is owned by the state, giving what they produce to the state: --
Here there were experiments in new residential arrangements such as communes or singleperson flats.
He used his method of loci communes to discuss the relevance of the passages in theological and soteriological terms.
As civic communes increasingly competed with episcopal authority, tensions were focused in the sites and structures of these buildings.
Local, self-determined communes were by law accorded administrative and fiscal control over health, education and some infrastructure.
In this version of the liturgy we are already communing with one who died in pain and with no signs of hope.
Since 1965, legislation has required the cantons and communes to pay supplementary benefits to those whose old-age pensions are insufficient to cover their basic needs.
Opposition to the party establishment was created in the form of revolutionary committees and communes.
Here an attempt was made to strengthen the elected communes.
