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COLLECTIVIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Synonyms:
collectivise; collectivize
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
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)
