collectivise
Definition
- 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.
Verb
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bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
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