collectivize

/kəˈlektɪvaɪz/ (bre, ipa) · [kəlˈɛktɪvˌaɪz] /kəˈlektɪvaɪz/ (ame, ipa) · [kəlˈɛktɪvˌaɪz] /kə-ˈlek-ti-ˌvīz How to pronounce collectivize (audio)/ (ame, mw)

collectivize — verb

  • collectivizepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • collectivizeshe / she / it
  • collectivizedpast simple
  • collectivizing-ing form

1. to make privately owned farms, land, or businesses part of one shared system run

1.動詞及物C1
釋義

to make privately owned farms, land, or businesses part of one shared system run by a group or by the government

例句

After the revolution, the party collectivized thousands of small farms.

collectivize + farms/land/businesses

Officials tried to collectivize village land before the next rice harvest.

同義詞
  • nationalize

    more common for a state taking formal ownership of a company or industry

  • socialize

    broader political term for putting production or services under public control

  • communalize

    stresses community ownership rather than control from a central state; much less common

反義詞
  • privatize

    to move land or industry from state or group control into private ownership

  • decollectivize

    to break up collective ownership and return control to individual owners

文法句型

collectivize + [farm/land/industry]

be collectivized

用法筆記

Usually takes farms, land, factories, or other productive property as its object. In history and political writing, it often appears in the passive after a government has already forced the change.

常見錯誤

❌Farmers collectivized with the land after the war.
✅The state collectivized the land after the war.
💡collectivize is transitive and usually takes property or industry as its direct object.
❌The ministry collectivized the villagers in one year.
✅The ministry collectivized the village farms in one year.
💡the verb normally refers to land, farms, or businesses, not to people themselves.