Collective
[kə'lektɪv] or [kə'lɛktɪv]
Definition
(noun.) 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 .
Typist: Sadie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
(a.) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
(a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
(a.) Tending to collect; forming a collection.
(a.) Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
(n.) A collective noun or name.
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Examples
- In order that one may live worthily he must first live, and so with collective society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The _personnel_ becomes the collective capitalist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Pal?olithic Age was an age of fights and murder, no doubt, but not of the organized collective fighting of numbers of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again, what community is it that is to own the collective property; is it to be the sovereign or the township or the county or the nation or mankind? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Plato does not appear to have analysed the complications which arise out of the collective action of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- Nothing is needed but collective effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And they only like to do the collective thing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Their collective appearance had left on me an impression of high- born elegance, such as I had never before received. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It must be used because it is a symbol of the collective life of mankind in general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And under her sense of the collective indifference came the acuter pang of hopes deceived. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Was collective ownership of capital a feasible scheme? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The continuity of social life means that many of these meanings are contributed to present activity by past collective experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The opportunities are just as great on the social side, whether we look at the life of collective humanity in its past or in its future. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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