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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
collectivize .
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Examples
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It collectivizes the bargaining power of individual policy holders.
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Seen from this perspective, the knife ban is coherent with the leftist anti-individual-rights agenda, which collectivizes our individual rights in the name of public safety and then limits those “approved” rights in order to nullify them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives: 2009
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The state gives the freedom to people to abuse themselves with alcohol, and then collectivizes taxes for the purpose of helping those who abused that freedom.
Heroin Is Illegal, Except When The Government Buys It For You « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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It's close enough consequentiall as it eliminates all profit motives, collectivizes property in the State, and assumes everyone will work for everyone else without any compensation whatsoever other than your personal say so.
Technocracy James Killus 2008
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The commune collectivizes everything -- land, houses, cattle, even people.
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