collective farm

American  

noun

1. (especially in the Soviet Union) a farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state.

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collective farm British  

noun

1. Russian name: kolkhoz.  (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community

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collective farm Cultural  

1. In socialist or communist countries, such as the former Soviet Union, a collective is a cooperative association of farmers who work land owned by the state but who own most of their own farm implements.

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Etymology

Origin of collective farm

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

It complained of "direct and brutal interference" in domestic affairs, in a country that has been ruled with an iron first for nearly three decades by ex-Soviet collective farm boss Lukashenko.

From Reuters

After graduating from an agricultural academy, he became a political instructor in the border guard service and eventually rose to director of a collective farm.

From Seattle Times

Lukashenko, a former Soviet collective farm manager, has ruled Belarus since 1994 but faced an unprecedented wave of street protests since a presidential election last August that the opposition says was blatantly rigged.

From Reuters

In Eckardts, a village a few miles from Eisenach, a giant cowshed stands abandoned - a relic of one of the collective farms that dominated agriculture in East Germany.

From Washington Times

In Eckardts, a village a few miles from Eisenach, a giant cowshed stands abandoned — a relic of one of the collective farms that dominated agriculture in East Germany.

From Seattle Times

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