sub-commune

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Not only the larger cities are setting up urban communes, even the small, remote places are doing so, for example, Haikung city on Hainan Island set⟳ up an urban commune with four sub-communes and nineteen factories during the first ten days of June, 1960,³ while it is reported that Hailaerh city in Inner Mongolia set⟳ up three urban communes at Hsiangchun, Chengyang and Ch'iaot'ou by using educational, planning, organizational, consolidating and elevating methods to carry⟳ out the Party call⟳ for the establishment of communes and set⟳ them up in thirty-five days because, it is said, they could not wait⟳ any longer.⁴”

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