(chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
Russian name: kolkhoz
collective farm in American English
noun
(esp in the former Soviet Union)
a farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state
Word origin
[1915–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, conditioning, soviet, stockpile, supernationalism
Examples of 'collective farm' in a sentence
collective farm
What we have here is no collective farm, it's a commune.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
In 1949, a tournament for collective farm workers attracted 130,000 entrants.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
From the clinic he was sent for re-education to a collective farm.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Theft from neighbours, cousins, the collective farm, workplaces became widespread.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Put up a sign saying 'collective farm'.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They managed to see a collective farm, as well as factories, clinics and academies, but came away without their suspicions being aroused.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
Anybody who worked in a state institution — a collective farm, a school, an office — also stole whatever he could.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
As for socialist realism, it was not all large portraits of buxom, tanned collective farm workers, as we have come to imagine it.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The former collective farm manager is widely expected to win the vote thanks to his monopoly of the media and the electoral apparatus.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
There is no doubt that the former collective farm manager will win - probably with 70 to 80 per cent of the vote.