collective
collective Lexical Profile
collective Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Done by, shared by, or characteristic of all members of a group acting as a whole.
"Protecting the local watershed requires a collective effort from every resident in the valley."
Aggregated or taken together as a whole; cumulative.
"The panel brings over a century of collective experience in environmental engineering."
• noun
A cooperative enterprise, organization, or group of people who share common goals and work together without a strict hierarchy.
"She joined an local artists' collective that shares studio space and exhibition costs."
A collective noun (a grammatical word that is singular in form but denotes a group of individuals or things).
"In English grammar, words like 'flock' and 'committee' function as collectives."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 15th century from Old French 'collectif' or directly from Latin 'collectivus', derived from 'collectus', the past participle of 'colligere' ('to gather together').
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