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collectivization 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism
  2. (collectivized) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
  3. Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
  4. The act of collectivizing
  5. Stalin's policy of confiscating privately owned agricultural lands and facilities and consolidating them, the farmers, and their families into large collective farms (q.v.) and state farms (q.v.). Forced collectivization took place from 1929 to 1937.
  6. A Soviet policy enacted under Joseph Stalin that disallowed private ownership in agriculture and formed large collective (or group) farms. Collectivization was part of a grand scheme to quickly industrialize the Soviet Union.
  7. the act or process of collective control, especially over the production and distribution of property. It was practiced during the Stalin years and in many communist countries. ...
  8. Creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants; part of Stalin's economic and political planning; often adopted in other Communist regimes. (p. 895)
  9. A change in property relations from private ownership to group ownership, a step below ownership by the state. Policy of compulsory collectivization of agriculture was announced on December 27, 1929, by Stalin; it began on February 1, 1930. ...
  10. Stalin combined all farms under gov't control
  11. the transfer of something from private to public ownership. For example, the establishment of communism involved the collectivization of land and private property.