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collective

[kuh-lek-tiv]

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adjective

formed by collection.

forming a whole; combined: the collective assets of a corporation and its subsidiaries.

of or characteristic of a group of individuals taken together: the collective wishes of the membership.

organized according to the principles of collectivism: a collective farm.

noun

collective noun.

a collective body; aggregate.

a business, farm, etc., jointly owned and operated by the members of a group.

a unit of organization or the organization in a collectivist system.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English collectif (< Middle French ) < Latin collēctīvus, equivalent to collēct(us) (past participle of colligere; see collect¹) + -īvus -ive

Related forms

col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

non·col·lec·tive, adjective

non·col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

un·col·lec·tive, adjective

un·col·lec·tive·ly, adverb

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It distracts us from the need for collective action, and it doesn't add up to enough.

We stare in the face of the bureaucracy and shrug our shoulders in a collective act of defeat.

The main mechanism whereby unions affect pay and conditions is collective bargaining.

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It distracts us from the need for collective action, and it doesn't add up to enough.

We stare in the face of the bureaucracy and shrug our shoulders in a collective act of defeat.

The main mechanism whereby unions affect pay and conditions is collective bargaining.

The ethnosphere is as vital to our collective well-being as the biosphere.

Collective bargaining is a good strategy when looking to get the best price on a given product or service.

They log thousands of collective miles on hamster wheels.

Our collective fat phobia has driven producers to breed leaner and leaner pork.

They are specters from our collective childhood, observed from behind half-finished sandcastles.

Contingent faculty have made strides in collective bargaining, but the management of their unions is one realm beyond their reach.

Yes, the governors are making a big mistake in trying to destroy collective bargaining.

To enumerate all their individual charms would almost kill the collective thrill of first hearing the songs in sequence.

Collective imagination can flourish only if everyone feels free of anxiety and full of trust.

Vindicated and honored after death, he definitely still lives in our collective memories.

Collective bargaining, technology leaders say, can bring high-end services to campus at lower prices.

Collective consumption is also disrupting established business models based on built-in obsolescence.

Kunze says the energy generated by the animals' collective ascent is comparable to that found in strong tidal channels.

Muscular bonding and collective joy are mere by-products of this more fundamental economic ritual.

In a few generations, their languages and collective culture would be lost.

Thousands of non-tenure-track faculty members today can choose to have their interests represented through collective bargaining.

It said the current system of collective ownership had turned peasants into serfs.

Individuals' collective actions can make a tremendous impact on waste issues.

We have shot ourselves in the collective feet with respect to new or replacement dams.

Gu's staff of three seems to hold its collective breath.

Understanding of and commitment to the legislated mandate of shared governance and the collective bargaining process.

The city heaved a collective sigh of relief-but it has been coughing ever since.

It's is a great example of how the collective enterprise of science works, unlike politics or religion.

In this scholarly symposium, come listen to a collective of international specialists and learn how color photography came about.

In particular, they hope to break down the collective defence against antibiotics.

Those properties arise from particles' collective behavior.

Our collective idea of fun then, is by definition a little naughty.

And it has to be by everyone making a conscious collective effort, as in the blitz, to do it together.

America needs a bold plan that ignites our collective imagination, sparks innovation, and creates economic and national security.

Why are pc propagandists pushing scientific mistruths down the collective public's throat.

Some of it is exogenous to the collective decisions of firms, some of it is endogenous.

What makes this approach so interesting is that the behavior of condensed matter is collective.

As often as not, it's easiest to give in-and a collective sigh of relief swells through the shop.

The collective budget is yet to be determined, the agencies say.

Of course nobody cares about minimizing the collective commute.

It s as though man truly believes that he is our belief library his collective opinion s library of beliefs.

As food prices soar, the improbable business of buying and reforming collective farms has attracted financiers.

As public spaces transformed into collective stories, memorials are.

But the collective obsession with short-term austerity across the rich world is hurting.

In learning about your own personal history, you will help generate unprecedented insight into our collective heritage.

The reasons why, and some reasons why it might be worth cooling our collective jets about them.

Ohio lawmakers approved legislation to limit collective bargaining rights for public sector workers.

By means of collective filtering, it made suggestions based on other buyers' purchases.

The end never came, but that hasn't stopped people--over centuries and across cultures--from forecasting our collective doom.

These developments energize people to invest in our collective future, and the well-being of our planet, despite the economy.

Our collective economic fates rose and fell with that tractor business.

It could be a figment of the collective imagination of the world's amateur satellite trackers.

Collective knowledge prevails, as if a force of egalitarian inevitability.

The collective budget-cutting will sap the recovery.

But the ideas, the imagination are triggering the century compiled collective knowledge and power in this symbolic language.

But she might be the only one who lives in a collective built by anarchists.

Mexico's public health authorities have concluded that the girls are suffering from collective hysteria.

Some graduate students at elite universities fight the push for collective bargaining.

Updated constantly, peer-review sites offer the collective wisdom of.

Science and the collective knowledge of humanity doesn't know or respect borders or race.

The collective mind, proponents say, can do everything from mapping crime to funding wacky art projects to solving the.

They come from decades of collective experience of top executives who have learned firsthand what it takes to succeed.

Just as the central nervous system's capacity can at times seem to transcend the collective capacity of its individual parts.

The gentle hiss of kerosene stoves from the kitchen tent in the distance, seemed to draw the collective attentions.

The only treasures which can truly be protected from those who would unwrite our collective past are the ones that aren't known.

We have been intrigued with the notion that the human collective unconscious somehow anticipates large impending perturbations.

Contingent faculty have made strides in collective bargaining.

The collective power of the bombs would have exceeded those used.

The group gives a collective sigh of delight, wonder, and a pinch of relief.

It is only through this journey will our collective conscience truly be free at last.

Like financial markets, prediction markets are big information processors, distilling the collective wisdom of their traders.

Academics welcome summer with a collective sigh of relief.

If you lived in the countryside, you worked on a collective farm.

To be sure, the electric-car industry has never made a collective push for climate legislation.

Collective leadership is the norm in much of the animal world, he says, though rare for humans.

Appointments to positions are subject to campus recruitment guidelines and the collective bargaining agreement.

But gone for the moment is any talk of the government forcing existing fundholders into collective group practices.

Danmadja was awarded collective compensation as well as payments to individuals.

However collective and individual choices affect the quality of peoples' environment and health as well as their longitivtiy.

The collective first had the idea one night when they saw a cat staring at them with shiny eyes.

The barricades show, he writes, how people choose and symbolize the way they voice their discontent and collective hopes.

But politics did not set off the latest bout of collective angst.

Another problem was the sheer collective bustle of such a large group.

We cannot rely on this mechanism to safeguard our collective health.

Individuals should be tested or not as they choose, my viewpoint is personal rights, not collective rights.

Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness.

Most other collective farms in this district are dead.

It places the direct medical cost of our collective sleep debt at tens of billions of dollars.

The collective force of so many men fed on a combo platter of anticipation and desire is unstoppable.

We don't need to choose between collective bargaining and legislative pressure as the way to achieve our goals.

The purposeful collective activity of ants and other social insects does, indeed, look intelligent on the surface.

It represents collective travel with long-deferred rewards.

What an extraordinary and insightful window onto our collective past this article offers.

She said that students in the education school had suggested doing the video but that the final product was a collective effort.

It's a question of tradition and collective feelings and pride.

When in a collective you have a certain critical number of people behaving in such a way others will tend to follow due to fear.

They don't usually wax enthusiastic about collaborative recall, collective memory, or.

In addition, the greater variation of jobs in the modern workforce has made it harder to implement collective agreements.

But each time it rumbles, it sends a shudder through the local collective memory.

Then, everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief.

Thus does the extended family keep on extending-further and further over their collective waistlines.

It is simply enough the fact that the collective income of our labor force cannot buy the goods and services that they produce.

Yet this collective addiction is relatively easy to break.

The only thing you are succeeding at is proving that creationists are off their collective nut.

We wish, therefore, to raise our own voices in a collective expression of our support for and confidence in our valued colleague.

Yes, paranoia is too simplistic a termMore a sort of insatiable acquisitive obsessive-compulsive collective disorder.

But our collective desire for apologies may not be a great indicator of their effect once delivered.

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World English Dictionary

collective (kəˈlɛktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	formed or assembled by collection
2.	forming a whole or aggregate
3.	of, done by, or characteristic of individuals acting in cooperation

—n
4.	a. a cooperative enterprise or unit, such as a collective farm
	b. the members of such a cooperative
5.	short for collective noun

col'lectively

—*adv*

col'lectiveness

—n

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collective

1520, from the source of collect (q.v.). As a shortened form of collective farm (in the USSR) it dates from 1925. Collective bargaining coined 1891 by Beatrice Webb; defined in U.S. 1935 by the Wagner Act; collective farm first attested 1919 in translations of Lenin; collective

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noun is recorded from 1520; collective security first attested 1934 in speech of Winston Churchill.

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