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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Before the evacuation, the village was part of the collective farm Uskhod (East).
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Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
Lukashenko, a 70-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss, survived the scare in 2020 in part thanks to his longtime ally Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose support has become existential for the Belarusian regime.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
Six kibbutzim — small communities founded on socialist ideals, where residents share the work and spoils of collective farms — founded the operation in the 1990s.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Hanoi responded by opening the state-run economy to private business, abolishing collective farms, and leasing land to individuals, who were allowed for the first time to sell their produce at a profit, at home or abroad.
—Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024
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Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
Lukashenko, a 70-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss, survived the scare in 2020 in part thanks to his longtime ally Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose support has become existential for the Belarusian regime.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
Six kibbutzim — small communities founded on socialist ideals, where residents share the work and spoils of collective farms — founded the operation in the 1990s.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Hanoi responded by opening the state-run economy to private business, abolishing collective farms, and leasing land to individuals, who were allowed for the first time to sell their produce at a profit, at home or abroad.
—Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Collective farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collective%20farm. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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