collectivise

Thân thiện

The government decided to collectivise the small farms in the region.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To bring under collective control or ownership; specifically to transfer private farms or industrial enterprises to collective or state control.

Usage

• The verb collectivise describes the process of organizing private property, particularly agricultural land or industrial businesses, into a system of collective ownership. This action is typically undertaken by a government or political authority.
• It is used in economic, political, and historical contexts, often relating to socialist or communist policies.

Examples

• Verb:
  • The government's plan was to collectivise all farmland within five years.
  • After the revolution, the new regime moved swiftly to collectivise major industries.

Advanced Usage

• "to collectivise agriculture": A common collocation referring to the specific policy of consolidating individual farms into collective or state-run farms.
  • The campaign to collectivise agriculture met with significant resistance from peasant farmers.

Variants and Related Words

• Collectivisation (noun): The process or policy of collectivising.
  • The collectivisation of the economy was a central tenet of their platform.
• Collective (adjective/noun): Owned or controlled by a group; a group-owned enterprise.
  • They worked on a collective farm.

Synonyms

• Nationalise: To transfer a private industry or asset to state ownership or control. (Note: often implies state ownership, while can imply ownership by a cooperative group of workers or farmers.)
• Socialise: To bring under state or collective control, especially in Marxist theory.

Antonyms

• Privatise: To transfer a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control.
• Decollectivise: To return collectively owned property to private ownership.

Học thuật

Verb

1. bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises

Từ đồng nghĩa

• collectivize