cooperativizev.
/kəʊˈɒp(ə)rətᵻvʌɪz/, U.S. /koʊˈɑp(ə)rədᵻˌvaɪz/ transitive. To bring (a product, service, etc.) under the control or ownership of a cooperative; to organize or restructure (an industry, community, economy, etc.) on cooperative principles.Chiefly with reference to communist or socialist countries.
ΚΠ
1927 Fortn. Rev. 2 May 652 Whereas the Socialists would municipalise coal, bread, milk, and banking services, co-operators would first ‘co-operativise’ them.
1963 China Q. 14 159 The development of heavy industry is to be given priority while agriculture will be cooperativised step-by-step.
1970 J. Gray in J. Ch'en & N. Tarling Stud. Social Hist China & S.E. Asia i. 128 Even in the village co-operativized in one month, where the Party was very strong, one Party member..refused to join.
2003 S. J. King Liberalization against Democracy ii. 28 Despite fairly widespread discontent with the agricultural cooperatives, the minister of planning..attempted to further cooperativize the economy.
Derivatives
coˈoperativized adj. that has been organized into cooperatives or restructured on cooperative principles.
ΚΠ
1942 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 24 907 The author has endeavored to describe a completely cooperativized society functioning through a hierarchy of retail and wholesale societies.
1957 K. Chao Agrarian Policies Mainland China iii. 69 They..are transforming the small-peasant economy on the basis of cooperativized production.
2019 Mod. Asian Stud. 53 1714 Under Vietnam's cooperativized economy, there was more space for households' private economic activities than that in collective farms in the former Soviet Union.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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