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.
- You used the term collective consciousness religiously.
- Ayers uses the word collective more often and in more ways than even Marx did.
- Perhaps Lowenstein's worst subliminal cue is the phrase "collective guilt," most commonly used when discussing the crimes of Germany under the Nazis.
- Individual protection covered the mask and any other protective appliance used by the individual soldier, while the term collective protection was applied to any method or appliance which afforded simultaneous protection for a number of individuals.
- The term collective will be used to describe the conception of a group right as a shared or joint right, since it conceives a right-holding group as a “collection” of individuals, albeit a collection that is bound together in a way that enables them to hold their right collectively.
- For the mass phenomenon, the large group of flowers, the tosses with the die, the molecules, we use provi - sionally the term collective (see complete definition in subsection 7, below), and we call labels, or simply results, the mutually exclusive and exhaustive proper - ties under observation.
- So to my friends who hate collective purchasing and I use the word collective to spur them to action, it is incumbent upon you to find a solution that will allow the individual consumer to have the security and access to the same level of health care that can be gotten through some form of insurance.
- The term collective behavior, which has been used elsewhere to include all the facts of group life, has been limited for the purposes of this chapter to those phenomena which exhibit in the most obvious and elementary way the processes by which societies are disintegrated into their constituent elements and the processes by which these elements are brought together again into new relations to form new organizations and new societies.