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Definition of collectivize
collectivized
;collectivizing
transitive verb
: to organize by collectivism
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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.
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First Known Use of collectivize
1893
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