Definition: 1. Forming a whole or aggregate. 2. Members of a cooperative enterprise. 3. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together. 4. Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government.
Use 'collective' in a sentence:
1. Stress is taking a significant toll on our health, and the collective public health cost may be enormous.
2. Software is the collective name for all the programs and instructions that direct a computer's operations.
3. The drowning at Chappaquiddick, now more than 20 years ago, is still engraved in the collective memory of America.
4. The clock brought order and control, both collective and personal.
5. They reminded me that one can be strong only when united with the collective.
6. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike or engage in collective action.
7. One's personal interests should be subordinated to the interests of the collective.
8. The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.
9. I do feel deeply the strength of the collective.
10. There's no way to share, and there's no way to prepare these, and no way to capture any value from the collective whole.
11. German cities set a world record for collective hula hoops.
12. Bruce Springsteen has rehired his muso collective, the E Street Band.
13. For some, though not all, of these difficulties, there is a name: the collective action problem.
14. This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labour relations in this country.
15. It was a collective decision.
16. We were welded into a fighting collective.
17. They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity.
18. It is our collective duty in this age to throw off such idiocy, and work honorably toward our intent.
19. She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel-gazing.
20. He believes AIDS is our collective nemesis.
21. The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
22. This sort of activity damages the reputation of the collective.
23. As a result of collective effort, the difficult situation changed into a favourable one.
24. He who appropriates collective goods will be punished by the law!
25. Many theorists believe the ideal boss should lead teams from behind, taking pride in collective accomplishment and giving credit where it is due.
26. They hold together for collective security.
27. Kwanzaa is based on seven principles which are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
28. Development of the collective economy continues to be our general objective.
29. She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel gazing.
30. They have been galvanised into collective action — militarily, politically and economically.
31. Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.
32. Land acquirement is the transfer of ownership between the nation and the collective.
33. The collective nuclear fireballs cooled to yellow and then dull red.
34. Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
35. This success was the result of a collective effort.
36. They have our data, and their businesses depend on the global public's collective belief that they will do everything they can to protect that data.
37. This Treaty shall not apply to collective marks, certification marks and guarantee marks.
38. There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.
39. Bruce Springsteen has re-hired his muso collective, the E Street Band.
40. We all bear collective responsibility for this decision.
41. Early immigrants to America from Europe brought with them a collective style of living, which they retained until late in the 18th century.
42. Their collective volume wasn't very large.
43. Many of the old agricultural collectives are now being turned into agribusiness corporations.
44. He takes the road of collective prosperity instead of trying to build up family fortunes.
45. Social science can also teach politicians how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.
46. Too many daft policies rely on the collective reluctance of the voters to leave marshmallows uneaten on the table.
47. Don't be a discredit to the collective.
48. But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.
49. Build a culture of collective values with customers.
50. It was a period of collective insanity, of legalized murder and mayhem.
51. He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
52. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.
53. The myriad connections forged by these technologies have brought tremendous benefits to everyone who uses the web to tap into humanity's collective store of knowledge every day.
54. The new cities and towns, squeezed by their walls, had to know and order time in order to organize collective activity and ration space.
55. We have had a successful year, both collectively and individually.
56. The collective wealth has been accumulated bit by bit.
57. The collective name for mast, boom and sails on a boat is the 'rig'.
58. To accomplish his own end, he placed collective interests in the back of his mind.
59. This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
60. A plasma is a quasineutral gas of charged and neutral particles which exhibits collective behavior.