collective farm
noun
: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision
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The collective farm’s crop rows stretch right up to the border, less than a kilometer away.
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Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Like most Israeli collective farms, or kibbutzim, Be’eri is a tightly knit community, sheltered from the outside world by a fence and a high yellow gate.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
The federal government established a collective farm in Arizona during the New Deal.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
The irony of this too-smooth federal segue from collective farm to concentration camp was not lost on some observers, including historian Robert Asahina.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended.
—WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
When The Bright Stream premiered at the Bolshoi in 1935, the ballet—which is set on a collective farm and features such characters as a man in a dog suit and a parade of vegetables—was denounced in Pravda as frivolous and ironic.
—Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
Hamas operatives seemed to have taken over a collective farm inside Israel, taking Israelis captive.
—Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
With Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, tension grows along Ukraine's northern border
After the war, Fedir and Maria lived on a kolkhoz, or Soviet collective farm.
—Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Like most Israeli collective farms, or kibbutzim, Be’eri is a tightly knit community, sheltered from the outside world by a fence and a high yellow gate.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
The federal government established a collective farm in Arizona during the New Deal.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
The irony of this too-smooth federal segue from collective farm to concentration camp was not lost on some observers, including historian Robert Asahina.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended.
—WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
When The Bright Stream premiered at the Bolshoi in 1935, the ballet—which is set on a collective farm and features such characters as a man in a dog suit and a parade of vegetables—was denounced in Pravda as frivolous and ironic.
—Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
Hamas operatives seemed to have taken over a collective farm inside Israel, taking Israelis captive.
—Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
With Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, tension grows along Ukraine's northern border
After the war, Fedir and Maria lived on a kolkhoz, or Soviet collective farm.
—Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
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