collectivisation [kәˏlektivai'zeiʃәn; - vi'z-]
n.
<主英> =collectivization
collectivisation[ noun ]
the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism
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- Though this is debatable - there are signs that inflation is beginning to accelerate again - the stage now seems set for further reforms. The problems are daunting: in agriculture the authorities are unable to turn the clock back to collectivisation.
- Their farms will be absorbed and consolidated into larger units, a process made infinitely easier in Poland by the very fact that private property ownership - and hence its legal sale or transference - was never abolished through collectivisation.
- 'The plan took little account of the resistance of the peasantry in the south to collectivisation and was anyway far too ambitious in thinking that the land would generate sufficient surpluses to fund industrialisation.