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collective farm

n.
A farm or a group of farms organized as a unit and managed and worked cooperatively by a group of laborers under state supervision, especially in a communist country.
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collective farm

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


n.
(esp. in Communist countries) a farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state.
[1915–20]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.collective farm - a farm operated collectively
collective - members of a cooperative enterprise
kibbutz - a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively
kolkhoz - a collective farm owned by the communist state
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However, the taxi driver misunderstood them and took them to Karakol collective farm in the Cholpon village.
Gorbachev's grandfather Andrei had first received land after the revolution and was loath to surrender it to a collective farm. Andrei retained his private farm, but he could not save his family from famine.
I chose German, which came into its own when I later hitchhiked as a student around Europe and when I went to Hungary in 1969 to work for the UN on a collective farm.
A bleak but beautiful portrait of a remote community using non actors, the film depicts rural life on a collective farm, centering on Asya, a lame and pregnant member of the collective.
And in Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship, collective farming was never undone, and a former collective farm director, Aleksandr Lukashenko, runs the country.
One of the projectiles damaged a fence at a kibbutz collective farm and another fell into an open space, a spokesman said.
If they had all entered the food chain it would have raised collective farm earnings by at least pounds 600,000 a week or pounds 30m a year.
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The story features a group of traveling performers visiting a collective farm. A contretemps involving mistaken identities reminiscent of The Marriage of Figaro lightheartedly weaves through the antics of farmers, dacha dwellers, and other rural folk.
The educational experience at Ben Shemen was grounded in the soil; students had to spend two hours each day working on the collective farm.
Working at a machine tractor station on a collective farm, she sees the brutality and poverty of the workers' and peasants' lives.

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