collectivize

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verb col·lec·tiv·ize \ kə-ˈlek-ti-ˌvīz \

Definition of collectivize

collectivized; collectivizing

transitive verb

:to organize by collectivism

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collectivization

play \kə-ˌlek-ti-və-ˈzā-shən\ noun

Recent Examples of collectivize from the Web

Millions died in Communist political campaigns after the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, and in a famine precipitated by an effort to collectivize agriculture in the late 1950s.

— didi kirsten tatlow, New York Times, "Why Send Germany a Statue of Marx? The Chinese Have Some Ideas," 21 May 2017
Seven million people died in a famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s after Josef Stalin forcibly collectivized 75 percent of the farms in the Ukraine.

— susan shelley, Orange County Register, "World is starving for the ingenuity of free-market agribusiness," 21 Jan. 2017
The famine precipitated by the 1958-61 Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s campaign to collectivize agriculture and quickly expand industry, which killed tens of millions of people, is known in China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters.

— didi kirsten tatlow, New York Times, "Don’t Call It ‘Smog’ in Beijing, Call It a ‘Meteorological Disaster’," 15 Dec. 2016

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