adjective, noun
adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 done or shared by all members of a group of people; involving a whole group or society:
collective leadership / decision-making * collective responsibility * collective consciousness / memory (= things that a group of people or a community know or remember, that are often passed from parents to children)
2 used to refer to all members of a group:
The collective name for mast, boom and sails on a boat is the 'rig'.
collectively adverb:
the collectively agreed rate * We have had a successful year, both collectively and individually. * rain, snow and hail, collectively known as 'precipitation' (= as a group)
noun a group of people who own a business or a farm and run it together; the business that they run:
an independent collective making films for television
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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