Collectively
[kə'lektivli]
Definition
(adv.) In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- After confession, absolution is granted to the citizens collectively, but no one is mentioned by name. Plato. The Republic.
- The gist of the socialist proposal is that land and all the natural means of production, transit, and distribution should be collectively owned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its religious and educational organizations were various, collectively not very powerful, and on the whole friendly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To whom collectively, Mr Inspector remarked that the weather was getting sharp for the time of year. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Collectively they were of 10,000 horse power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Individually and collectively there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Susan