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col·lec·tiv·ize | \ kə-ˈlek-ti-ˌvīz 
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\collectivized; collectivizing
Definition of collectivize
: to organize by collectivism
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collectivization \ kə-ˌlek-ti-və-ˈzā-shən \ noun
\ nounExamples of collectivize in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, farms were collectivized with all land in state hands.
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Washington Post, "Ukraine’s plan to sell farmland raises fears of foreigners," 31 Oct. 2019 The authorities collectivized agriculture and broke down institutions of civil society.
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Matthew Continetti, National Review, "Help Hong Kong by Defending Taiwan," 24 Aug. 2019 The way to make more walruses and reindeer was to collectivize their herding and killing.
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Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, "When the Soviet Union Freed the Arctic from Capitalist Slavery," 15 Aug. 2019 Is doing so essential somehow for society’s psychological well-being, an attempt to collectivize experience increasingly diffused by the distractions of the internet?
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Alyson Krueger, New York Times, "It’s the Anniversary of Everything!," 2 Aug. 2019 At the same time, a hairy Marxist academic who's been hanging around the factory tries to persuade the workers to collectivize and run the place themselves, a notion that soon collides with their unenlightened self-interest.
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Chicago Reader, "More than 60 new features premiere locally at the European Union Film Festival," 7 Mar. 2018 The seeds of the disaster were sown when Stalin collectivized the vast farmlands of Ukraine in 1929, systematically ending not only local farming autonomy but all aspects of local autonomy, from village government to inheritance laws.
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Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, "'Red Famine' chronicles the ruin wrought upon Ukraine by Josef Stalin," 20 Oct. 2017 To understand where ObamaCare is vulnerable, first consider why President Obama succeeded in collectivizing American health care when President Clinton had failed.
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Phil Gramm, WSJ, "Republicans, Stand Up for Health Freedom," 18 Oct. 2017 The government does not collectivize all the farms in the country and determine what should be grown, how much should be grown and what farmers will be paid for their crops.
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Alaska Dispatch News, "Readers write: Letters to the editor, July 19, 2017," 19 July 2017
See MoreThese example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'collectivize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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The first known use of collectivize was in 1893
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