COLLECTIVE
\kəlˈɛktɪv], \kəlˈɛktɪv], \k_ə_l_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of COLLECTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"
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forming a whole or aggregate
By Princeton University
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set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"
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forming a whole or aggregate
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
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Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
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Tending to collect; forming a collection.
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Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
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A collective noun or name.
By Oddity Software
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United; accumulative; as, the collective claims of the miners; derived from a group, or characteristic of a group; common; in grammar, naming a number of objects as a group.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Tending to collect; formed by gathering; gathered into one mass, sum, or body; aggregated; deducing consequences. A collective noun, a noun in the singular denoting a number conceived as one body, as a company, an army, &c. Collective note, a note subscribed by all the Powers represented.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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