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collective

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col·lec·tive / kəˈlektiv/ • adj. done by people acting as a group. ∎ belonging or relating to all the members of a group: ministers who share collective responsibility. ∎ (esp. of feelings or memories) common to the members of a group: a collective sigh of relief. ∎ taken as a whole; aggregate. • n. a cooperative enterprise. ∎ a collective farm. DERIVATIVES: col·lec·tive·ly adv. col·lec·tive·ness n. col·lec·tiv·i·ty / kəˌlekˈtivitē; ˌkälˌek-/ n.

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Collective

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

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.

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