The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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.
n. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The socialistic theory or principle of centralization of all directive social and industrial power, especially of control of the means of production, in the people collectively, or the state: the opposite of individualism.
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n. a political theory that the people should own the means of production
n. Soviet communism
Word Usage
"From collectivism to collectivism is the real tragedy of these times."