collectivize
verb
col·lec·tiv·ize kə-ˈlek-ti-ˌvīz 
collectivized; collectivizing
transitive verb
: to organize by collectivism
collectivization
kə-ˌlek-ti-və-ˈzā-shən
noun 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web From the 1920s onward, as part of a plan to collectivize agriculture, the Soviet Union determined that a vast swath of its Central Asian vassals would be given over to cotton. 
Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 From the 1920s onward, as part of a plan to collectivize agriculture, the Soviet Union determined that a vast swath of its Central Asian vassals would be given over to cotton. Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 From the 1920s onward, as part of a plan to collectivize agriculture, the Soviet Union determined that a vast swath of its Central Asian vassals would be given over to cotton. Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022 When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, farms were collectivized with all land in state hands. Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019 The authorities collectivized agriculture and broke down institutions of civil society. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019 The way to make more walruses and reindeer was to collectivize their herding and killing. Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019 Is doing so essential somehow for society’s psychological well-being, an attempt to collectivize experience increasingly diffused by the distractions of the internet? Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019 At the same time, a hairy Marxist academic who's been hanging around the factory tries to persuade the workers to collectivize and run the place themselves, a notion that soon collides with their unenlightened self-interest. Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018 See More
Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 From the 1920s onward, as part of a plan to collectivize agriculture, the Soviet Union determined that a vast swath of its Central Asian vassals would be given over to cotton. Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 From the 1920s onward, as part of a plan to collectivize agriculture, the Soviet Union determined that a vast swath of its Central Asian vassals would be given over to cotton. Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022 When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, farms were collectivized with all land in state hands. Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019 The authorities collectivized agriculture and broke down institutions of civil society. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019 The way to make more walruses and reindeer was to collectivize their herding and killing. Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019 Is doing so essential somehow for society’s psychological well-being, an attempt to collectivize experience increasingly diffused by the distractions of the internet? Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019 At the same time, a hairy Marxist academic who's been hanging around the factory tries to persuade the workers to collectivize and run the place themselves, a notion that soon collides with their unenlightened self-interest. Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French collectiviser, from collectif collective entry 1 + -iser -ize
First Known Use
1893, in the meaning defined above
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