collective
IPA: kʌɫˈɛktɪv
noun
- A farm owned by a collection of people.
- (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
- (grammar) A collective noun or name.
- (by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
- The flight control used to control a helicopter's ascent or descent.
adjective
- Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
- Tending to collect; forming a collection.
- Having plurality of origin or authority.
- (grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
- (obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
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Examples of "collective" in Sentences
- God is the nucleus of the collective.
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