Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
collectivise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
- adjective characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
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Examples
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This Wednesday, Barroso will present proposals for eurozone-wide "stability bonds" – collectivised debt which could be sold at interest rates that the likes of Italy and Spain could afford.
Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward' 2011
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Where is the 'change' in the way the public can experience these early days of Obama's era that might draw on the networked, collectivised nature of the victory?
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Are you claiming that the collectivised farms of Soviet Russia did not apply to humans, nor does the unsubsidised farming on private property in NZers did not apply to humans?
Do Progressives Believe This?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Trolls are now their own separate problem within themselves - they allow efforts to be distributed to many human actors over a variety of technologies, and collectivised to any particular end, over a mere matter of minutes, hours, days or months.
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Where the Bolsheviks collectivised everything and left the individual with nothing, Ayn demanded a mirror-image world where everything was privatised and nothing - no scrap of humanity - was left for the public sphere.
Johann Hari: The Last Person On Earth To Turn To Now Is Ayn Rand 2009
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They might be secret fascists, or they may be white power socialists like the BNP all dreaming of a white utopia of collectivised co-operatives and the end of corporate capitalism.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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In the anarchist-controlled areas, (Aragon and Catalonia), in addition to the military success, there was a vast social revolution in which the workers and the peasants collectivised land and industry, and set up councils parallel to the (non-functioning) government.
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It could hardly continue to exist as a huge patch of private enterprise, like a sort of game reserve, in the middle of a collectivised economy.
As I Please 1947
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"To achieve a common interest rate, you need similar competitiveness and budget situations - not collectivised debt," she said, in Frankfurt.
The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011
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If collectivised compulsory education did anyone any good, we might just care.
Evening Standard - Home Anna Davis 2012
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