To bring something into collective ownership or control.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- collectivize property
- collectivize production
On the page
The policy collectivized the property under the stated institutional arrangement.
The historical account distinguished collectivizing production from merely coordinating it.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- collectivize
- Past tense
- collectivized
- Past participle
- collectivized
- Present participle
- collectivizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- collectivize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are collectivizing
- Present perfect
- have/has collectivized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been collectivizing
- Past
- collectivized
- Past continuous
- was/were collectivizing
- Past perfect
- had collectivized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been collectivizing
- Future
- will collectivize
- Future continuous
- will be collectivizing
- Future perfect
- will have collectivized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been collectivizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: collectivize; collectivizes; collectivized; collectivized; collectivizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: collectivizes.
Practice this word in a sentenceYour margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.