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Commons is a general term for shared resources, typically used in political economic theory.

Contents

• Shared resources
• Computing and Internet
• Places
• Electoral districts
• Northern Ireland townlands
• Shopping centers
• People
• Media
• Political parties
• Other uses
• See also

As an Irish surname, it is anglicised from Irish Gaelic surname Ó Comáin.

Commons may also refer to:

Shared resources

• Common good (disambiguation)
• Common land, shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the British Isles
• Global commons, term used for international commons in political economic theory

Computing and Internet

• Apache Commons, repository of reusable Java programming language components
• Commons (news website), Taiwan-based Hong Kong news website established in 2021
• Creative Commons, licensing system for creative works
• Digital commons (economics), a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology
• Digital Commons (Elsevier), a commercial, hosted institutional repository platform owned by RELX Group
• Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files

Places

People

• John R. Commons (1862–1945), economist and labour historian
• Jamie N Commons (born 1988), British singer and songwriter
• Kim Commons (1951–2015), American chess master
• Kris Commons (born 1983), Scottish footballer
• Michael Commons (born 1939), American scientist

Media

• Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, a left-wing Ukrainian magazine
• Commmons, a Japanese record label
• The Commons (TV series), a 2020 Australian series on Stan

Political parties

• Commons (Chilean political party)
• Commons (Colombian political party)

Other uses

• House of Commons, the elected lower houses of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada, colloquially referred to as "the Commons"
  • House of Commons of Canada
  • House of Commons of the United Kingdom
• Commons, a concurrency road or other place where multiple roadways share pavement

See also

• Common (disambiguation)
• Common good (disambiguation)
• Commoner (disambiguation)
• The Common (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Commons
• Commonlands, an area in the game EverQuest 1 and 2

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