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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collective
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a collective decision (=one that a number of people make together)
▪ Society should take collective decisions about individual rights and responsibilities.
a collective sigh (=a sigh that many people give at the same time)
▪ She heard a collective sigh of relief as she announced her acceptance.
collective bargaining
collective farm
collective guilt (=guilt shared by each member of a group or society)
▪ Should we feel some kind of collective guilt for what happened in the past?
collective noun
collective responsibility (=shared equally by a group of people)
▪ Head teachers should encourage a sense of collective responsibility among teachers.
free collective bargaining
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ Private collective action is possible and does occur.
▪ These movements appear as dispersed resistance, but they also are a form of collective action in the face of the crisis.
▪ However, if demand falls collective action poses less of a threat, and may even be beneficial.
▪ But they did manage one collective action that ought not go unremarked.
▪ Like its predecessor, the new regime is for individual achievement, not collective action.
▪ I believe in movements, collective action to influence the future, and all that.
▪ The belief in collective action for change was mentioned earlier.
▪ They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action.
agreement
▪ A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment.
▪ Industrial disputes and negotiations, and union and collective agreements and recent redundancies.
▪ The vendor will be required to warrant that no trade unions have been recognised and that there are no collective agreements.
▪ Users can reach their own collective agreements on usage, but these may be costly to organize and enforce.
▪ Between 1976 and 1987, there were seven collective agreements.
bargaining
▪ But much of the collective bargaining went beyond legal minima.
▪ The unions flourished, gaining over 4 million more members by 1945, and collective bargaining became more widely accepted.
▪ As a result, the scope of autonomous collective bargaining was restricted.
▪ Under these circumstances, the wages of many different types of labour are determined by the process of collective bargaining.
▪ These considerations will be an important influence on collective bargaining.
▪ Faith in collective bargaining could not take root.
▪ The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
▪ In both countries collective bargaining had emerged in a form strongly influenced by product market considerations.
consciousness
▪ But, since the heyday of the missionaries, the collective consciousness has nevertheless undergone a sea-change.
▪ If the nub of the nation lies in collective sentiment the obvious question is how does this collective consciousness arise?
consumption
▪ Contemporary Marxist urban sociology places much less emphasis on the supposed necessity for the state to be engaged in collective consumption.
▪ In other words, they cut first and most their personal consumption rather than collective consumption.
▪ But the distinction between personal and collective consumption remains fairly clear.
decision
▪ The party groups meet on a regular basis and make collective decisions on policy.
▪ General will should ensure the equality and liberty necessary for active citizenship -; taking collective decisions.
▪ Itis during the plenary sessions that opinions and collective decisions are voted on.
▪ We make a collective decision, together, for peace or for strife.
▪ Somewhere-maybe in the smoke-filled rooms of the Knickerbocker Club-there was a collective decision to raise the stakes.
effort
▪ They are purely private means devised by the neurotic to achieve what is achieved in society by collective effort.
▪ But when they were finally received, a surprise Most books are a collective effort to some extent.
▪ Occasional collective efforts by prisoners to improve their lot have mostly been sharply put down.
▪ But their internal will for collective effort was weak.
▪ It is only through collective effort and strength that we can ensure that a fair deal can be achieved for Bank Officials.
▪ Liberals, Sowell claims, share a belief that people can improve their lives through collective effort.
experience
▪ The collective experience of achieving this success validates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.
▪ The burden is to make a learning source out of the collective experience.
▪ These beliefs, in turn, can be modified only through collective experience.
farm
▪ Farmers given right to leave collective farms with allotment of land and equipment.
▪ In October 1956 collectivization began, with the establishment of collective farms.
▪ Agriculture is crippled, too, by the miserable conditions on the collective farms.
▪ Milda was no longer allowed to live in Riga but had been ordered to do hard physical work on a collective farm.
▪ People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.
▪ He doesn't mean as drones on some collective farm.
▪ Before independence Valeriy was a farmer on a local collective farm.
▪ Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms.
identity
▪ Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management.
▪ A group of teenage girls could create their own music unique to them as a badge of their collective identity.
investment
▪ Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.
▪ There are now also collective investments in a range of zeros.
▪ The profits from capitalism are redistributed to millions of people, not through taxing and public spending but through collective investment trusts.
leadership
▪ It has a collective leadership in the form of an organisational bureau.
▪ A nebulous collective leadership, including the chiefs of the powerful armed forces, may still be holding the balance of power.
▪ In the Soviet Union there was a pattern of swings between single and collective leadership in the post-Second World War period.
▪ This style has been reinforced by the values of partisanship and collective leadership of the Cabinet.
▪ In such systems, many people in the community share power relatively equally, as a collective leadership.
▪ There is some talk of a collective leadership, but that would not last.
life
▪ The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
▪ What he contributes as a participant in collective life ranges from reform to radical re-structuring.
▪ There seems to be some unconscious connection between Weegee and the collective life of New York.
▪ He is strongly dedicated to the sharing of sound information with others in the collective life.
▪ To a degree that collective life indeed is creative social experience, specific goals may not be predetermined.
▪ Occasionally Cooley exhibits a multi-dimensional scheme that promises to liberate the imagination for the many sides of collective life.
▪ The craft too, can be applied to the local units of collective life.
▪ The legacy might be what scholars who have taken him seriously have learned from him about human collective life.
memory
▪ This provides firms with large collective memories.
▪ It is the first collective memory of the new family, paradoxically shared even by children who were unborn at the time.
▪ Karadzic's continued freedom and the collective memory loss may suit international politics.
▪ There was fear of poison gas, in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.
▪ Within the collective memory of the North Shore resides an entire history of its natural phenomena.
noun
▪ Take our changing use of collective nouns to describe the groups of people we work with.
▪ Our collective noun is an Apprehension of Agents.
responsibility
▪ These are examples of collective responsibility for past wrongs.
▪ You should just elect people to Parliament and have collective responsibility.
▪ Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.
▪ Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
▪ Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
▪ In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility, as well as the confidentiality of proceedings.
▪ Civil servants are instructed to safeguard the collective responsibility of ministers.
▪ The courts have not been given a mandate to spell out collective responsibilities, and even less to police them.
security
▪ A tall order, but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West.
▪ As a result the Edinburgh Conference of 1936 passed resolutions leaving the Labour Party supporting collective security but opposing rearmament.
▪ To counteract Western influence Soviet officials advocated a system of collective security.
▪ It also argued for collective security arrangements as a means of building confidence and security in the region.
▪ This put paid to Baldwin's attempt to pose as a champion of collective security.
▪ Peace, in other words, depends solely on collective security.
▪ Nation states could only coexist peaceably if a strong collective security arrangement were respected by all.
▪ The league was charged also with responsibility for collective security, so that individual states could embark on a programme of disarmament.
sigh
▪ The watching deities gave a collective sigh.
▪ You could hear a collective sigh of relief.
▪ A collective sigh of relief seemed to whistle from every pore of the house as I walked away.
▪ There was a collective sigh of relief.
worship
▪ The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ collective ownership
▪ A jury's verdict is the result of a collective agreement.
▪ Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimate collective effort to protect our children" and said he supported them.
▪ The bureau was without a manager for some time, so the staff took collective responsibility for all the tasks.
▪ The decision to launch nuclear weapons must be collective.
▪ The present crisis is a result of the collective failure of the political parties to put forward a plausible economic programme.
▪ Unless we act now to protect the environment, we shall have failed in our collective responsibility to future generations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.
▪ Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
▪ It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite.
▪ People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.
▪ Somehow, Willingham has to lift the collective spirit of his team.
▪ Sometimes ba just means from, or a small collective unit, like the Abanabugerere means people who live in Bugerere.
▪ The collective experience of achieving this success validates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A women's collective runs the small cafe across the street.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Following Bagehot or modern functional sociology, the assertion is made that the figure of the sovereign binds together the national collective.
▪ I pulled the collective to my armpit and waited for the noise.
▪ The first breeze came to me as Connors pulled in the collective.
▪ When all gauges showed green, I slowly raised the collective to pull the Huey into a hover.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collective

Collective \Col*lect"ive\, a. [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.]

  1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
    --Bp. Hoadley.

  2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] ``Critical and collective reason.''
    --Sir T. Browne.

  3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

  4. Tending to collect; forming a collection.

    Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons.
    --Young.

  5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

    Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit.
    --Gray.

Collective

Collective \Col*lect"ive\, n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collective

early 15c., from Middle French collectif, from Latin collectivus, from collectus (see collect). As a noun, short for collective farm (in the USSR) it dates from 1925. collective farm first attested 1919 in translations of Lenin. Collective bargaining coined 1891 by Beatrice Webb; defined in U.S. 1935 by the Wagner Act. Collective noun is recorded from 1510s; collective security first attested 1934 in speech by Winston Churchill.

Wiktionary
collective

a. 1 Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. 2 (context obsolete English) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. 3 (context grammar English) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like ''assembly'', ''army'', ''jury'', etc. 4 Tending to collect; forming a collection. 5 Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. n. 1 A farm owned by a collection of people. 2 (context especially in communist countries English) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community. 3 (context grammar English) A collective noun or name. 4 (context by extension English) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.

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WordNet
collective

n. members of a cooperative enterprise

collective

  1. adj. done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" [syn: corporate]

  2. forming a whole or aggregate [ant: distributive]

  3. set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"

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Wikipedia
Collective (disambiguation)

A collective is a group whose members share a common interest or goal.

Collective or The Collective may also refer to:

Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, but can be that as well.

The term "collective" is sometimes used to describe a species as a whole—for example, the human collective.

Collective (Stavesacre album)

Collective is a compilation of tracks by Christian rock band Stavesacre taken from the band's first three albums, which were released on Tooth & Nail Records, and two tracks from an independent EP, four new recordings of old songs and covers of songs by X ("The Hungry Wolf") and American Music Club ("Rise").

Collective (BBC)

Collective was an "interactive culture magazine" hosted by the BBC's website bbc.co.uk and run using the "DNA" software developed for h2g2. It was launched in May 2002 and became interactive four months later. Among its editors were Rowan Kerek, Jonathan Carter, Alastair Lee, James Cowdery and Matt Walton, the magazine's originator. The bulk of its content consisted of weekly reviews and discussion of new music, films, video games and/or books.

Contributors to Collective included artist Billy Childish, Rhianna Pratchett and various freelance journalists such as film reviewer Leigh Singer and film and games journalist Daniel Etherington. Submissions could be made regardless of professional status by anyone who had registered as a member of the magazine.

The magazine was felt to have a strong sense of community and its discussions extended to current affairs and weblogs. Its video-game coverage was considered to be more inclusive in its tone than much of the coverage produced by, for example, specialist media. As at h2g2, each member was given a userpage (a "my space") where their contributions and interactions were listed.

Collective webpages were made dormant in early 2008.

Collective (Star Trek: Voyager)

__NOTOC__ "Collective" is the 136th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 16th episode of the sixth season.

Chakotay, Harry Kim, Tom Paris and Neelix are taken hostage when the Delta Flyer is captured by a Borg cube. However, the cube is littered with dead drones and controlled solely by a small group of unmatured Borg children who were left behind, unworthy of re-assimilation. The underdeveloped drones attempt to assimilate their captives, while Captain Janeway sends Seven of Nine to negotiate.

Collective (I've album)

Collective is a compilation album by Japanese music production unit I've Sound and volume six in their Girls Compilation album series, released on September 30, 2005. The album is a compilation of songs they have contributed to various adult PC games and CDs. It includes a newly recorded title track sung by Kotoko. Besides Kotoko, it features the vocals of Eiko Shimamiya, Kaori Utatsuki, Mami Kawada, Mell, Momo and Shiho.

Collective (Clock DVA album)

'Collective ' is a box set, containing three CDs, by Clock DVA released on August 3, 1994. It initially was issued through Hyperium Records as a three disc set. After the 1000 pressings were sold it was re-issued as a single disc through Cleopatra Records.

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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.