collectivizationcollectivization /kəˌlɛktɪvəˈzeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] the act of combining together several farms into one large farm that is owned by all the people who work there or by the state. This happened especially in the past in some communist countries: The collectivization of farmland was one of Stalin’s prize projects.—collectivize /kəˈlɛktɪˌvaɪz/ verb [transitive]: The uprising was an attempt to get rid of the landowners and collectivize the estates. |