Collective
Collective adjective - Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government.
Usage example: collective farms
Socialist and collective are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Socialist" instead an adjective "Collective".
Socialist
Socialist adjective - Advocating or following the socialist principles.
Collective and socialist are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collective" instead an adjective "Socialist".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Our Daily Bread is about a group of Americans in the depths of The Great Depression who form a socialist-style collective farm.
Source: Capitalism Is Bad - They wind up establishing a socialist collective farm in which there is no private property and everything goes into one common pot.
Source: Commune -
Down on the Farm: Specifically, a socialist collective farm, the kind that Joseph Stalin would have liked, but in the American heartland.
Source: Film / Our Daily Bread
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