COLLECTIVIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collectivize mean? 

• COLLECTIVIZE (verb)
  The verb COLLECTIVIZE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTIVIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they collectivize    ... he / she / it collectivizes   
Past simple: collectivized   
Past participle: collectivized   
-ing form: collectivizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

collectivise; collectivize

Hypernyms (to "collectivize" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

collective (members of a cooperative enterprise)

collectivization (the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism)