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COLLECTIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Members of a cooperative enterprise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("collective" is a kind of...):
enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collective"):
collective farm (a farm operated collectively)
Derivation:
collectivise; collectivize (bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government
Example:
collective farms
Classified under:
Similar:
socialist; socialistic (advocating or following the socialist principles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Forming a whole or aggregate
Classified under:
Similar:
agglomerate; agglomerated; agglomerative; clustered (clustered together but not coherent)
aggregate; aggregated; aggregative; mass (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)
collectivised; collectivized (characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production)
knockdown ((furniture) easily assembled and dismantled)
Also:
integrative (combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole)
joint (united or combined)
united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)
Antonym:
distributive (serving to distribute or allot or disperse)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
Example:
the corporate good
Synonyms:
collective; corporate
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
joint (united or combined)
Context examples:
NCAM appears on early embryonic cells and is important in the formation of cell collectives at sites of morphogenesis.
(CD56 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
Their collective appearance had left on me an impression of high- born elegance, such as I had never before received.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“For many women and girls in low- and middle-income settings, it’s impossible to forget – globally they spend a collective 200 million hours collecting water every day,” she says.
(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)
However, many questions concerning the brain as a collective whole need to be answered.
(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This necropolis is made up of at least 17 tholos‑type tombs –places used for collective burials– that were excavated between 1968 and 1971.
(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)
The tombs are collective burial sites, where individuals of both sexes and of all ages were buried.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
A collective term used to identify indigenous peoples of northern Iraq and neighboring areas of Syria and Turkey, who also identify themselves as Aramaeans and Chaldeans.
(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)
The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center is a cancer research consortium that integrates and builds on the collective talent and resources of seven Harvard-affiliated institutions: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
(Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
There might be only ten thousand people in a country, yet their collective judgment and will would be the law of that country. Why, then, could not one thousand people constitute such a group? she asked herself. And if one thousand, why not one hundred? Why not fifty? Why not five? Why not—two?
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
If you remove planet nine from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs, said Antranik Sefilian, who is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of Darwin College.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
