Word Meanings - COLLECTIVISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.

Related words: (words related to COLLECTIVISM)

• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• CAPITALIZATION
  The act or process of capitalizing.
• CAPITAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the head. Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Milton. 2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials;
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• CAPITALLY
  1. In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally. 2. In a capital manner; excellently.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• SOCIETY
  1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation;
• CAPITALIZE
  1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital. 2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.) 3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• OWNERSHIP
  The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
• SUMMERLINESS
  The quality or state of being like summer. Fuller.
• COMMUNISM
  A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
  Toward a town. Longfellow.
• TOWNLESS
  Having no town. Howell.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• STEP-DOWN
  Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.