collective farm

noun

: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision

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Hanoi responded by opening the state-run economy to private business, abolishing collective farms, and leasing land to individuals, who were allowed for the first time to sell their produce at a profit, at home or abroad. Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024 In the fall, workers piled into trucks heading for the collective farms and harvested immense amounts of wheat, afterwards swigging vodka straight from the bottle and dancing in the stubbly fields. Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024 Ukraine was the center of a Nazi hunger plan whereby Stalin’s collective farms were to be seized and used to feed Germany and other European territories, causing tens of millions of Soviet citizens to starve. Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022 Among the ruins of Soviet collective farms, Goldstein finds a different kind of revolution: an artisanal one. Hannah Whitaker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for collective farm 

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of collective farm was in 1925

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“Collective farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collective%20farm. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

collective farm

noun
: a farm operated by a group
especially : one under supervision of the government in a communist country

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