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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"

forming a whole or aggregate

set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"

forming a whole or aggregate

Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

Tending to collect; forming a collection.

Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

A collective noun or name.

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.

Considered as forming one mass or sum: congregated: (gram.) expressing a number or multitude.

Gathered into one mass, accumulative; employed in deducing consequences ; a collective noun expresses a multitude, though itself be singular, as a company.