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col·lec·tive  (k-lktv)
adj.
1. Assembled or accumulated into a whole.
2. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.
n.
1. An undertaking, such as a business operation, set up on the principles or system of collectivism.
2. Grammar A collective noun.

col·lective·ly adv.
col·lective·ness n.

collective
Adjective
done by or characteristic of individuals acting as a group: the army's collective wisdom regarding peacekeeping
Noun
a group of people working together on an enterprise and sharing the benefits from it
collectively adv

Collective a collective body; a gathering; a collection of extracts; a number of individuals working or acting together; specifically in the USSR, a farm created by pooling together a number of small holdings. See also aggregate, body.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.collective - members of a cooperative enterprise
enterprise - an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader"
collective farm - a farm operated collectively
Adj.1.collective - done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"
joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
2.collective - forming a whole or aggregate
integrative - combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
united - characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity; "presented a united front"
distributive - serving to distribute or allot or disperse
3.collective - set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"
socialist, socialistic - advocating or following the socialist principles; "socialistic government"

collective
Translations
Spanish collective [kəˈlɛktɪv] adjcolectivo
French collective [kəˈlɛktɪv] collect adjcollectif/ive
ncollectif m

German collective [kəˈlɛktɪv] collect adjkollektiv, gemeinsam
nKollektiv nt;
collective farm → landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft f

Italian collective [kəˈlɛktɪv] adjcollettivo/a

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In all associations of men there is generally one who, by the authority of age and of a more experienced wisdom, imparts a collective character to the whole set.
Therefore for all persons to say the same thing was their own, using the word all in its distributive sense, would be well, but is impossible: in its collective sense it would by no means contribute to the concord of the state.
Whether political, ecclesiastical, or moral, all their teaching has for its object the improvement of individual and collective Configuration -- with special reference of course to the Configuration of the Circles, to which all other objects are subordinated.
 
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