transcription, транскрипция: [ kəlektɪv ]
( collectives)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
It was a collective decision...
The country’s politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
= joint
ADJ : ADJ n
• col‧lec‧tive‧ly
The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
ADV : oft ADV with cl
2.
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.
= combined
ADJ : ADJ n
• col‧lec‧tive‧ly
In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
ADV : ADV with v
3.
The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
ADJ : ADJ n
• col‧lec‧tive‧ly
...other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).
ADV : ADV with v
4.
A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits. ( BUSINESS )
He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
= co-operative
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