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   collective

   /kəˈlɛktɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. done by people acting as a group: "a collective protest"
   • ▪ relating to or shared by all the members of a group: "ministers who share collective responsibility"
   • ▪ taken as a whole; aggregate: "the collective power of the workforce"

   noun

   • 1. a cooperative enterprise: "the exhibition showcases the work of art collectives from more than 20 countries"
   • ▪ a collective farm.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘representing many individuals’): from Old French collectif, -ive or Latin collectivus, from collect- ‘gathered together’, from the verb colligere (see collect1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. collectiveness noun
   • 2. collectivity noun

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   What is the meaning of collective?

   • formed by collection. the collective assets of a corporation and its subsidiaries. the collective wishes of the membership. a collective farm. collective noun. a collective body; group. 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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   What does collective mean in a prom?

   • Collective is a word that describes a group of people acting together. A prom might turn into a smashing success through the collective efforts of the student body. The word collective indicates a group, and is often used in opposition to the efforts or will of an individual.

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   What is a collective amount?

   • A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has. Their collective volume wasn't very large. In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it. The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.

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   Why are collectives important?

   • One appeal of collectives is that they reduce risk. Moreover, this is an analogy between plant life, seen as developing according to a single pattern, and human collectives - in other words, a metonymy. A similar process of 'approximation' took place with the alternative collectives and citizens' initiatives and the state.

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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; group.