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