Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
collectivize .
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- 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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Under its dubious stewardship, the country was reorganized into a kind of collectivized agrarian state.
unknown title 2009
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** that a free market, unconstrained by government regulation, will always produce better results than centrally planned, "collectivized" public enterprises.
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Anti-Soviet revolts broke out periodically—in particular in 1929–1930, as agriculture was forcibly collectivized—but they were put down by NKVD troops.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Has his administration collectivized the hospitals, turned doctors into a state monopoly, nationalized the insurance companies?
Benjamin R. Barber: Socialism For Dummies or: Why Obama Isn't a Communist Benjamin R. Barber 2010
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In the northern jurisdiction, grasslands have been collectivized and animal husbandry has been modernized.
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2009 - Illustrated Presentation 2009
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Schools are merely mass daycare centers for the drones run by collectivized worker bees designed to turn out more collectivized worker bees incapable of even imagining questioning their place in the universe and readily discard-able when they are no longer useful or merely upon the whims of the elites.
Democrats resegregate DC school system. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Poland, to pick one example, never collectivized thefarms.
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Has his administration collectivized the hospitals, turned doctors into a state monopoly, nationalized the insurance companies?
Benjamin R. Barber: Socialism For Dummies or: Why Obama Isn't a Communist Benjamin R. Barber 2010
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Poland, to pick one example, never collectivized the farms.
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Anti-Soviet revolts broke out periodically—in particular in 1929–1930, as agriculture was forcibly collectivized—but they were put down by NKVD troops.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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