moshavn.

1927 Palestine Bull. 16 Jan. 17 The Moshavim have 1,635 buildings.

1934 Cook's Traveller's Handbk. Palestine, Syria & Iraq (ed. 6) 48 The Moshav, in which small holdings of land are allotted to families on hereditary lease by the Jewish National Fund... The co-operative principle is applied in the purchase and sale of produce and agricultural requirements.

1944 H. F. Infield Co-operative Living in Palestine (1946) iii. 46 The Moshav is intermediate between individualism and the Kvutza. Here the settler lives in his own house, owns a piece of land and some cattle.

1959 Economist 16 May 640/1 The moshavim (the farming settlements where the families rent their own land but co-operate over marketing, tractor stations, seed buying, etc.).

1969 P. Worsley in G. Ionescu & E. Gellner Populism 231 Since family-farming units and communitarian village life are perfectly compatible, forms resembling the moshav, or the Saskatchewan Group Farm, have been the favoured models.

1973 Jewish Chron. 6 July 3/2 The first families moved into the second moshav..occupying 30 of the 40 houses built.

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate ii. 375 Part of it [sc. a kibbutz] still subscribed to the old kibbutz collectivism, part of it functioned on the principle of a moshav.