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col·lec·tiv·ism    Audio Help   [kuh-lek-tuh-viz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the political principle of centralized social and economic control, esp. of all means of production.

[Origin: 1875–80; < F collectivisme; see collective, -ism]

col·lec·tiv·ist, noun, adjective
col·lec·tiv·is·tic, adjective
col·lec·tiv·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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col·lec·tiv·ism    Audio Help   (kə-lěk'tə-vĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The principles or system of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.

col·lec'tiv·ist n., col·lec'tiv·is'tic adj., col·lec'tiv·is'ti·cal·ly adv.
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collectivism

noun
1. Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism
2. a political theory that the people should own the means of production 

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Collectivism

Col*lect"iv*ism\, n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. --W. G. Summer.
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