About The Word Collective
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Collective
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What's The Definition Of Collective?
[n] members of a cooperative enterprise
[adj] set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms" [adj] forming a whole or aggregate [adj] done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" Synonyms | Synonyms for Collective: agglomerate | agglomerated | agglomerative | aggregate | aggregative | assembled | built(a) | clustered | collectivised | collectivized | corporate | made-up | mass | socialist | socialistic Related Terms | Find terms related to Collective: abstract | accompanying | accordant | agreeing | associate | associated | at one with | bland | broad | coacting | coactive | coadjutant | coadjuvant | coadunate | coefficient | coincident | collaborative | collectivist | collectivistic | collusive | combined | combining | commensal | common | communal | communalist | communalistic | communist | communistic | communitarian | commutual | concerted | concomitant | concordant | concurrent | concurring | conjoint | conniving | consilient | conspiratorial | cooperant | cooperating | cooperative | coordinate | coworking | ecumenic | featureless | fellow | general | generalized | generic | harmonious | harmonized | in common | indefinite | indeterminate | joint | meeting | mutual | nebulous | neutral | noncompetitive | nonspecific | parasitic | popular | public | reciprocal | saprophytic | social | socialistic | societal | symbiotic | synchronous | synergetic | synergic | synergistic | uncharacterized | uncompetitive | undifferentiated | united | uniting | unspecified | vague | wide See Also | collective farm | enterprise | integrative | joint | united Collective In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Col*lect"ive\, n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name. |
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