Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - collectivize

(collectivizes, collectivizing, collectivized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'collectivise' If farms or factories are collectivized, they are brought under state ownership and control, usually by combining a number of small farms or factories into one large one. Most large businesses were collectivized at the start of the war... He forced the country to collectivize agriculture. ...large collectivised farms. VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed • collectivization ...the collectivisation of agriculture. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n