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- verb Present participle of
collectivize .
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Examples
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Something like "collectivizing" that just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
"Never waste a good crisis..." Ann Althouse 2009
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There is a libertarian argument, a hayekian argument against "collectivizing" marriage in the first place, which is what a "state license" does.
Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2009
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Galt, Dagny, and the rest of the gang probably live and laugh and love in the same parallel-universe world of a Congress-free America and a collectivizing Europe that Rand self-servingly, and self-defeatingly, chose for the novel.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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Naturally, lots of people want to know what it would mean to take socialism seriously, short of collectivizing the means of production -- and, if I just mean that I support good public education and universal health care, why use a controversial word for ideas that much of the developed world shares?
Jedediah Purdy: How to Be a Liberal-Conservative-Socialist-Anarchist Jedediah Purdy 2011
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Single women compare what they can provide to what a married couple can provide, and feel poorer for the comparison, so they augment by collectivizing.
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Galt, Dagny, and the rest of the gang probably live and laugh and love in the same parallel-universe world of a Congress-free America and a collectivizing Europe that Rand self-servingly, and self-defeatingly, chose for the novel.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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Galt, Dagny, and the rest of the gang probably live and laugh and love in the same parallel-universe world of a Congress-free America and a collectivizing Europe that Rand self-servingly, and self-defeatingly, chose for the novel.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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But in December 1961 Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist and launched the most aggressive confiscation drive ever in the Americas, collectivizing almost 70 percent of the total economy by 1962.
Javier Corrales: Cuba's Latest Reforms Won't Work Javier Corrales 2010
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Galt, Dagny, and the rest of the gang probably live and laugh and love in the same parallel-universe world of a Congress-free America and a collectivizing Europe that Rand self-servingly, and self-defeatingly, chose for the novel.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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But in December 1961 Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist and launched the most aggressive confiscation drive ever in the Americas, collectivizing almost 70 percent of the total economy by 1962.
Javier Corrales: Cuba's Latest Reforms Won't Work Javier Corrales 2010
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