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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collectively
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
▪ People, especially when acting collectively, can come to break these barriers, overcome these constraints and reconstruct their social world.
call
▪ We are part of the rest, and are collectively called the eukaryotes.
▪ These bodies are collectively called the Taurid complex.
know
▪ However, all the fish known collectively as carp and, of course, the common goldfish and its forms reproduce freely.
▪ The biblical passages are collectively known as the Lectionary.
▪ This is one of the conclusions of a family of arguments in Wittgenstein known collectively as the private language argument.
▪ The members of the genus Amphiprion are known collectively as anemonefishes.
▪ These symptoms, often known collectively as hyperactivity or the hyperkinetic syndrome are dealt with more fully in Chapter Eleven.
▪ The inferior courts Those courts which do not form part of the Supreme Court of Judicature are collectively known as inferior courts.
▪ We just wanted four individuals who could be collectively known as something normal.
▪ Artists obtain certain rights, collectively known as copyright, on the origination of any artistic work.
work
▪ We will work collectively in cooperatives soas to be able to help each other.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Collectively, these studies showed a clear link between smoking and cancer.
▪ Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands are collectively known as the "Benelux' countries.
▪ Commercial banks collectively earned $6.2 billion in the first three months of this year.
▪ Individually, people have little power, but collectively they can be more influential.
▪ The team collectively must decide what resources they need and how they are to be used.
▪ These substances are referred to collectively as ketone bodies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Looked at collectively, the green movements in Britain are already numerically impressive.
▪ The upshot: they collectively export more for less revenue.
▪ These bodies are collectively called the Taurid complex.
▪ What grows on these tracts are huge, magnificent conifers in stands that environmentalists now call, collectively, the Ancient Forest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collectively

Collectively \Col*lect"ive*ly\, adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

Wiktionary
collectively

adv. In a collection; in a collective manner; together as a whole; bunched together; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

WordNet
collectively

adv. in conjunction with; combined; "Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage"; "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together" [syn: jointly, conjointly, together, put together]

Usage examples of "collectively".

It is that altho he has seen the world outside and altho he is thereby enabled to measure the smallness of what he left behind, he cannot forget the inhabitants of Grimstad, individually and collectively.

Voor godminds would at last be allowed to survive, and the broods would unite and begin to use their psynergies collectively.

Cycads and cycadeoids, collectively known as the cycadophytes, grew as shrubs and small trees, some occupying the undergrowth in the conifer forests, and others living in the open under drier conditions.

They were collectively mesmerized by her lovely presence, and not even the gunfighter thought to level a weapon at her.

Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.

All men of letters or of science, all writers well known to the public, are constantly tampered with, in these days, by a class of predaceous and hungry fellow-laborers who may be collectively spoken of as the brain-tappers.

Via bio accumulation harmless or sublethal doses in lower organisms can collectively become damaging or fatal to consumers higher in the food chain.

But since my aim is very general, I will refer to them collectively as systems theory, dynamic systems theory, or evolutionary systems theory.

I reject the doctrine of State sovereignty, which I held and defended from 1828 to 1861, but still maintain that the sovereignty of the American Republic vests in the States, though in the States collectively, or united, not severally, and thus escape alike consolidation and disintegration.

But where this superiority in the English whaleman does really consist, it would be hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years.

Though many of the whales, as has been said, were in violent motion, yet it is to be observed that as a whole the herd neither advanced nor retreated, but collectively remained in one place.

There are a number of membrane proteins which can be phosphorylated in this way, some postsynaptic, some presynaptic, and the enzymes responsible for catalysing the phosphorylation are known collectively as protein kinases.

The Clavering police force were collectively a hardened, cynical bunch suppressing as best they could a vigorous crime wave in a mining area with a high unemployment percentage.

Collectively they have been called the DNA Cowboys, and inflated stories still circulate about their alleged exploits.

Collectively, these fountains invented and standardized numerous treats, including milk shakes and banana splits.