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collectivise

collectivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of collectivize.

Meaning of collectivize

Verb

collectivize (third-person singular simple present collectivizes, present participle collectivizing, simple past and past participle collectivized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To organize (a farm or industrial enterprise) on the basis of collective control.
    • Only a government of workers and oppressed people, and a collectivized economy, can provide the resources and consciousness to end lesbian/gay oppression, racism, and sexism.1987 February 22, Dallas Williams, “Black, Gay and Red”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 5

Forms of collectivise

third-person singular presentcollectivises
present participlecollectivising
past participlecollectivised
pastcollectivised
alternative formcollectivize

Origin of collectivise

From collective + -ise.

Questions about collectivise

What is collectivise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Collectivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of collectivize.

Words near collectivise in the dictionary

  1. collectively exhaustive
  2. collectiveness
  3. collectives
  4. collectivisation
  5. collectivisations
  6. collectivise
  7. collectivised
  8. collectivises
  9. collectivising
  10. collectivism
  11. collectivisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collectivise (page history and authors); collectivize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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