Done by people acting together

Usage examples of collective.

American moral and intellectual emancipation can be achieved only by a victory over the ideas, the conditions, and the standards which make Americanism tantamount to collective irresponsibility and to the moral and intellectual subordination of the individual to a commonplace popular average.

Western psyche that was never allowed to be scratched and then forgottenthe ascendent carrot on a very long stick held above and in front of the collective donkey that assured that the poor beast would always lurch forward and never be allowed to eat.

Their only consolation now is the realization that through her painstaking and sustained labours for the Cause in Auckland Mrs Blundell has left an abiding monument to her memory, and one which will continue for many years to come to inspire and strengthen them all in their collective endeavours for the establishment of the Faith in New Zealand.

He pushed the collective down like he was making an autorotation and we crashed before I could stop it.

Everything that happened can be explained in terms of autosuggestion and collective hallucination.

Pulsit raved, Raster swilled, and Durki wretched their collective way across the Sea of Baraboo until they came in sight of the continent of Midway.

Propolis A collective term for the resins and waxes collected by 220 bees and brought to their nests for use in construction and in sealing fissures in the nest wall.

We looked back at Biggy, and we gave a collective gasp when he sprang from his car with a tire iron in his hand and raced toward us.

Dantes then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form?

This one obviously earned a meager living in Chiba City handling excess power surges for the otaku collective.

Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity.

Those who believe in organizing collective security by means of military pacts against a possible aggressor are particularly fond of this word.

On the one hand, marketing practices and consumer consumption are prime terrain for developing postmodernist thinking: certain postmodernist theorists, for example, see perpetual shopping and the consumption of commodities and commodified images as the paradigmatic and defining activities of postmodern experience, our collective journeys through hyperreality.

The sum total of civilization there consists of one PTA office, one corycium mine, and a bunch of humanoid natives with the collective IQ of a zucchini.

The damoclean sword of use and abuse forever swung perilously over the collective head of mankind.