| common stock |
ordinary capital shares of a corporation that often provide dividends and confer voting privileges, but that place their owners' claims, in the event the corporation liquidates, below those of holders of preferred stocks or bonds. |
| common time |
a musical meter of four beats, usu. quarter notes, to the measure; four-four time. |
| commonweal |
the public welfare; common good. |
| commonwealth |
a political unit, usu. a state or nation, or the people thereof. [3 definitions] |
| Commonwealth Day |
in much of the British Commonwealth, the second Monday in March, when the Commonwealth is recognized. |
| Commonwealthmen |
group of British thinkers and reformers whose ideas of republicanism, civic virtue, and liberty had an influence on the leaders of the American Revolution. |
| commotion |
an agitated or noisy disturbance. [2 definitions] |
| communal |
of or pertaining to a community or a commune. [2 definitions] |
| communalism |
a theory or system of government in which local communities or communes have virtual autonomy within a loose federation. [2 definitions] |
| communalize |
to make (something) the property of the community; convert to public property. |
| communal taint |
in India, the perception of a person or political body being strongly tied to or influenced by a particular cultural or religious community and thus not committed to values of secularism and unity. |
| commune1 |
to be in close or intimate communication. [2 definitions] |
| commune2 |
a group of people living together as a community, working collectively on land owned in common or by a government. [3 definitions] |
| communicable |
capable of being communicated or transmitted. |
| communicant |
a church member who takes, or is entitled to take, Communion. [2 definitions] |
| communicate |
to impart. [4 definitions] |
| communication |
the transferring of messages or exchanging of information or ideas. [3 definitions] |
| communicative |
disposed or tending to communicate readily and well. |
| communion |
an act or instance of intimate communication or sharing. [3 definitions] |
| communiqué |
an official announcement or bulletin, esp. from a government. |
| communism |
the theory of a classless social system in which all property and means of production are owned in common; socialist theory deriving from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. [3 definitions] |