What is "collectives"

Usage examples of "collectives".

He's quite bright, and had been in line to supervise one of the first farm collectives you are to create.

Al­though they settled in a small communal village right on the border in the northeast sector, a village that also served several farming collectives, they were but two hours from the capital city and all his old friends and associates.

Soon most of the molecules were organized into molecular collectives, into self-replicating systems.

In time, the seas became full of these molecular collectives, forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, mutating, replicating… Elaborate systems arose, molecular collectives exhibiting behavior, moving to where the replication building blocks were more abundant, avoiding molecular collectives that incorporated their neighbors.

The produce, grain, and meat provided from these collectives will be distributed at no charge to recipients of public subsistence allotments, thus easing the burden on Jefferson's neediest families while providing high-quality foods to the economically disadvantaged.

He described to him the activities of numerous small and large collectives in the immediate vicinity of Moscow, and also in other districts, which succeeded in making a fat profit not out of hard and thankless labor in the fields, but by producing articles out of polyethylene and polystryrol, colored items, door-handles, electric plugs, etc.

For each of them he found an appropriate rationalization, giving them to understand that such activity was not in the least to the detriment of the collective's aims or their customers' requirements, but on the contrary corresponded to the legitimate desires of their sister collectives and was even a valuable contribution to Soviet life and culture.

Loose wandering collectives of people who didn't fit in, people who didn't like the rules.