Collectivism
noun
noun ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively countable, uncountable
- 2 a political theory that the people should own the means of production wordnet
- 3 The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. countable, uncountable
- 4 Soviet communism wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Algeria forced collectivism upon farmers in the 1970s and 1980s."
Etymology
From collective + -ism.
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