Collective

Definition: Collective

Collective

Adjective

1. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good".

2. Forming a whole or aggregate.

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

Noun

1. Members of a cooperative enterprise.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Collective \Col*lect"ive\, adjective. [Latin collectivus: compare to French collectif.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Collective

Generality

Adjective: general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread; (dispersed).

Orthodoxy

The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist; (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians.

Crosswords: Collective

I thought we were an autonomous collective. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Like, who doesn't have an anerositor, you collective heads of knuckle? (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie; writing credit: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Bridget Jones, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl)

The collective will of everyone in this room! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We do not want to be what you are! Return us to the collective! (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

Oh that, the collective leaving of the brethren. (Tenacious D; writing credit: Masato Ochi)

Collective Marriage (1971)

The Collective (2000)

Cano notes sur une expérience collective (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Unionization and Collective Bargaining in Africa, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Awakening to Zero Point: The Collective Initiation (reference)

• Cultures under Siege : Collective Violence and Trauma (reference)

• Governing the Commons : The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (reference)

• Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (reference)

• Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts: The Moosewood Collective (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bulletin De La Negociation Collective (reference)

• Cas 12th Collective Index - Cd Rom (reference)

• Chemical Abstracts Collective Index - Cd-Rom Comes With Chemical Abstracts Collective Index - 13th Ed (reference)

• Collective Bargaining Bulletin (reference)

• Collective Volume Of Scientific Papers = Recueil De Documents Scientifiques - Cd-Rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Music in High Places - Collective Soul (Live from Morocco) (reference)

• Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Borg Collective (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 7even Year Itch: Collective Soul Greatest Hits 1994-2001 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mr. Richberg, it looks like the starlings and I will have to do some collective bargainin' to stick around here!. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Republic-wide agricultural exhibition in Kishinev, Moldova. Visitors at the fruit and vegetable stand of the "Krasny Partizan" collective farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crop being gathered on collective farm of Levan in district of Fier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Composite of three scenes of grain harvesting on a collective farm in Russia and quote from Stalin about collective farms becoming Bolshevik. Credit: Library of Congress.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of B. Tugutov, leader of a field team of the Molotov Collective Farm, with three medals on his chest, facing front, wearing hat, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Kolkhoz--compulsory Soviet collective farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And therefore, though perhaps at first , (as shall be shewed more at large hereafter in the following part of this discourse) some one good and excellent man having got a pre -eminency amongst the rest, had this deference paid to his goodness and virtue, as to a kind of natural authority, that the chief rule, with arbitration of their differences, by a tacit consent devolved into his hands, without any other caution, but the assurance they had of his uprightness and wisdom; yet when time, giving authority, and (as some men would persuade us) sacredness of customs, which the negligent, and unforeseeing innocence of the first ages began, had brought in successors of another stamp, the people finding their properties not secure under the government, as then it was, (whereas government has no other end but the preservation of property) could never be safe nor at rest, nor think themselves in civil society, till the legislature was placed in collective bodies of men, call them senate, parliament, or what you please.* By which means every single person became subject, equally with other the meanest men, to those laws, which he himself, as part of the legislative, had established; nor could any one, by his own authority; avoid the force of the law, when once made; nor by any pretence of superiority plead exemption, thereby to license his own, or the miscarriages of any of his dependents.** No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm. (Second Treatise of Government)

Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The Collaborative Program for Research in BPD, established by the NHLBI in 1994, is supporting a multi-institutional consortium of interactive research grants which enables established investigators with different backgrounds and expertise to undertake a collective study of lung maturation using a baboon model of BPD. A major goal of this program is to develop strategies for both prevention and treatment of BPD. The baboon model is facilitating studies that are not possible in human patients. (references)

Business

Such clauses are common in collective bargaining agreements. (references)

Individual contracts are then to be drawn up in line with the terms of the collective contract. (references)

The human resource series covers minimum wages, child labor, unionization and collective bargaining. (references)

Civil Liberties

Macedonia

Ethnic-Albanian refugees all reside at the Radusa collective center. (references)

United Kingdom

In addition schools have to provide a daily act of collective worship. (references)

Macedonia

Roma also reside in collective centers at Dare Bombol, Llubanci, Saraj, and Struga. (references)

Economic History

Spain

Large employers generally have individual collective agreements. (references)

Hungary

Unions are entitled to negotiate collective bargaining agreements. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi labor law forbids union activity, strikes, and collective bargaining. (references)

Human Rights

Afghanistan

Prisoners lived in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions in collective cells. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

A number of NGO's state that these actions constituted collective punishment against a civilian population. (references)

Samoa

Villages are governed by traditional law, and the fono may mete out banishment, one of the harshest forms of punishment in this collective society. (references)

Indigenous People

Belize

In October 2000, the Government and the Mayan People of Southern Belize (a loose association of Mayan and nongovernmental groups) signed a collective agreement to address the grievances set forth in a petition by Mayan community leaders in the summer of 1998. However, Mayan leaders reported that by year's end, the agreement had produced no concrete results since its signing. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

The law recognizes individuals' minority rights, establishes the concept of the collective rights of ethnic minorities, and states that it is their inalienable collective right to preserve their ethnic identity. (references)

Colombia

The same law also authorized Afro-Colombian communities to receive collective titles to some Pacific coastlands; however, Afro-Colombian leaders complained that the Government was slow to issue titles, and that their access to such lands often was inhibited by the presence of armed groups or individuals. (references)

Political Economy

MOROCCO

The laws governing collective bargaining are inadequate. (references)

TURKEY

Turkish law requires collective bargaining before a strike. (references)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Only a minority of companies has collective bargaining pacts. (references)

Political Rights

Germany

The second chamber, the Bundesrat, is composed of delegations from state governments; there are no collective Bundesrat elections. (references)

Burkina Faso

While international observers described the elections as substantially free and fair, a collective of 14 local NGO's cited generalized and systematic corruption and voter list irregularities. (references)

Mali

Citing problems in the voter registration process, a collective of 18 opposition parties boycotted these elections, which, although administratively flawed, were considered by most independent observers to be generally free and without evident fraud. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

The idea was developed by Pro Europe, a joint organization funded by the European collective scheme. (references)

Spain

Property investment funds also exist in Spain, thus completing the process of adaptation to and standardization with collective investment instruments in the EU. (references)

Ukraine

USAID is assisting Ukraine in restructuring this priority sector through an agricultural strategy that focuses countrywide on: 1) financing and developing private sector sources of inputs to agriculture, and private processing of agricultural products; 2) privatizing agricultural land with special emphasis on restructuring collective agricultural enterprises into private entities and the issuance of land titles and developing a land market; 3) reducing the environmental impact of agricultural chemicals; 4) private farm and household plot development; and 5) implementing new agriculture policies to facilitate a private-sector based market economy. (references)

Travel

Oman

Western visitors are unlikely to patronize the local, non-air conditioned bus or collective taxi system in Muscat. (references)

Women

Burundi

Several local groups work in support of women's rights, including the Collective of Women's Organizations and NGO's of Burundi and Women United for Development. (references)

Paraguay

The Women's November 25th Collective, an NGO, operates a reception center where female victims of violence can receive legal, psychological, and educational assistance. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

The ESMA also restricts collective bargaining. (references)

Bhutan

There is no collective bargaining in industry. (references)

Zimbabwe

It is very difficult to conduct legal collective job action. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "collective": collective Act ♦ collective agreement ♦ collective bargaining ♦ Collective Bargaining Committee for Burgomasters ♦ collective barganing ♦ collective body of Christians ♦ collective call sign ♦ collective dose ♦ collective farm ♦ collective farmer ♦ collective farming ♦ Collective fruit ♦ collective interest ♦ collective lens ♦ collective mark ♦ collective medical pratice ♦ collective name ♦ collective notion ♦ collective noun ♦ collective ownership ♦ collective phenomena ♦ collective risk ♦ collective security ♦ collective term ♦ declaration of generally binding nature of a collective agreement ♦ wage rate fixed in accordance with collective and other arrangements. Additional references.

Beginning with "collective": collective-bargaining, collective-decision, collective-farm, collective-variative.

Ending with "collective": anti-collective.

Albanian

kolektivë, kolektiv (consentual), i përbashkët (common, communal, concerted, corporate, joint, mutual, United), i mbledhur (collected, collecting, scratch, shrunken). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منظمة (brotherhood, community, organism, organization), ‏متجمع (convergent), ‏مشترك (combined, common, concerted, conjoint, in common, interplay, joint, mutual), ‏وحدة (community, identity, isolation, loneliness, oneness, singularity, solitude, togetherness, unit, unity), ‏جمعي (additional, additive, multilateral, plural), ‏جماعي (mass). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвкупен, събирателен, колективен (communal), общ (aggregate, blanket, broad, common, communal, corporate, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide). (various references)

Chinese 

集�" , 集�" (Collectively, Collectivity). (various references)

Czech

spoleèenský (formal, gregarious, outgoing, sociable, social), kolektivní, kolektiv (group, team), hromadný (summary, wholesale), aktiv (caucus). (various references)

Danish

gruppepraksis (collective medical practice, collective medical pratice, group medicine, group practice), kollektiv forhandling (collective bargaining), kollektiv ejendom (collective farm, people-owned estate), kollektiv dosis (collective dose), kolkhos (collective farm, kolkhoz, kolkhoze), kapitalgoder til kollektivt brug med ubestemt levetid (capital goods for collective use with an indeterminate life time), investeringsforeningscertifikat (unit, unit issued by a collective investment undertaking), kollektiv term (broader term partitive, collective term), grupperejse (collective tour, party travel), kollektivbrug (collective use, joint use), gruppearbejde (break-out sessions, collaboration, collective work, joint composition, joint projects), fællesfaciliteter (collective services, community services, public facilities), fællesdrift (collective use, joint use), fælles brug (collective use, joint use), en-vejs op kollektivt manoevresystem (up collective), en-vejs ned-kollektivt manoevresystem (down collective), arbejde i grupper (collective work, joint projects), andel der er udstedt af et institut for kollektiv investering (unit, unit issued by a collective investment undertaking), investeringscertifikat (unit, unit issued by a collective investment undertaking), overenskomstmæssig lønning (standard wage, wage rate fixed in accordance with collective and other arrangements), tjenester,der ydes kollektivt,er tjenester,som konsumeres kollektivt af hele befolkningen,og hvor konsumenterne eller modtagerne ikke kan identificeres individuelt (pure collective services are services which are consumed jointly by the entire population), sektoren forsikringsselskaber omfatter alle de institutionelle enheder,hvis hovedfunktion bestaar i at forsikre,dvs.at omdanne individuelle risici til kollektive risici normalt ved skabelse af forsikringstekniske reserver (normally by establishinginsurance technical reserves, the sector insurance enterprises consists of all insitutional units which are principally engaged in insurance:i.e.which convert individual risks into collective risks), sektoren det offentlige omfatter alle de institutionelle enheder,hvis hovedfunktion er at producere ikke-markedsmaessige tjenester til kollektivt konsum og/eller omfordele nationalindkomsten og nationalformuen (the sector general government includes all institutional units which are principally engaged in the production of non-market services intended for collective consumption and/or in the redistribution of national income and wealth), samlesæk (collective bag, collective sack), samlede oversigter (collective statements), samfundsgoder (collective services, community services), samarbejde (collaborate, collaboration, collective work, joint composition), kollektiv landbrugsejendom (collective farm, people-owned estate), partitivt overbegreb (broader term partitive, collective term), to-vejs kollektivt manøvresystem (directional collective, full collective), offentligt formål (collective needs, public facilities), offentlige anlæg og kontorer (collective facilities, community equipment, community facilities, municipal facilities, public facilities), kollektivt garntilførselssystem til alle spindler på ringtvindemaskine og tvindemaskine (yarn delivery system collective for the whole spindles of a ring doubling and twisting frame), kollektivlinse (collecting lens, collective lens, positive lens), kollektive tjenester (collective services, community services), kollektive overenskomstforhandlinger (collective bargaining, negotiations between the two sides of industry), kollektive faenomener (collective phenomena, cooperative phenomena), kollektive fænomener (collective phenomena, cooperative phenomena), porttelefonanlaeg (collective call). (various references)

Dutch

collectief (joint). (various references)

Esperanto

kolektivo, kolektiva (joint). (various references)

Farsi 

جمعی (Plural), انبوه (Aggregate, Bike, Clump, Congeries, Dense, Gross, Heap, Luxuriant, Rank, Riffraff, Thick, Voluminous), اجتماعی (Civic, Ecclesiastic, Order, Public, Republican, Social), اشتراکی (Communal), بهم پیوسته (Aggregate, Compact, Conjunct). (various references)

Finnish

kollektiivinen. (various references)

French

collectif (common, communal). (various references)

German

kollektiv (collectively, joint). (various references)

Greek 

συλλογικόσ (corporate, joint), ομαδικόσ (common, mob, team). (various references)

Hebrew 

שתופי (cooperative), קבוצי (associative), קבוצתי. (various references)

Hungarian

kollektív, együttes (aggregation, band, cast, combined, common, ensemble, group, joint). (various references)

Italian

comune (average, common, common run, commonplace, commune, conventional, everyday, familiar, general, joint, municipality, ordinary, parish, plain, platitudinous, popular, prevalent, public, rife, standard, together, workaday), collettivo (corporate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

集合的 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅう�"うてき. (various references)

Korean 

공동 (Common, Commoner, Commonest, Conjoint, sinus, Sinuses). (various references)

Manx

gowaltys co-chadjin. (various references)

Pig Latin

ollectivecay

Portuguese

coletivo (aggregate, corporate, public). (various references)

Romanian

colectiv (association, common, group, personnel, staff, team), grup social. (various references)

Russian 

совместный (co operative, collaborative, cooperative, co-operative, jnt joint, joint, joint-development, mutual, participatory), собирательный (aggregative), коллективный, общий (blanket, common, conjoint, corporate, general, generic, genl general, global, joint, mutual, overall, sharable, shareable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbirni, zadruga (cooperative), kolektivan. (various references)

Spanish

colectivo (aggregate, collecting, corporate, group, jitney, joint, lot, minibus, taxi, union), de montón. (various references)

Swedish

sammanlagd (aggregate, total), samlad (collected, nerveless, overall, United), kollektiv (aggregate, communal, commune, corporate), gemensam (common, communal, concerted, corporate, joint, mutual, United). (various references)

Turkish

topluluk adı (collective name, collective noun), toplu (concerted, corporate, holo-, roundabout, whole), ortaklaşma, ortaklaşa çiftlik (collective farm), ortaklaşa (collectively, in cahoots, in collaboration with, in common, joint, jointly), ortak girişim (joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture), ortak (agreed, associate, collaborator, common, conjunct, consociate, cooperator, copartner, dormant partner, fellow, identic, joint, mate, mutual, pard, partner, party, privy, shareholder, sidekick, sympathetic), müşterek (common, communal, consociate, joint, mutual), genel (across the board, blanket, broad, common, exoteric, general, generic, grand, liberal, overhead, plenary, prevailing, prevalent, running, sweeping, widespread). (various references)

Turkmen 

kolhozзi (r) (collective farmer). (various references)

Ukrainian

сукупний (cumulative), спільний (aggregate, common, conjoint, corporate, encyclical, joint, mutual, simultaneous), колективний, колектив (collectivity), загальний (aggregate, all out, appellative, blanket, common, general, generic, generical, global, net, nominal, overall, pandemic, universal), збірний (built up, hotchpotch, made up, prefabricated). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nông trường tập thể (collective farm, kolkhoz). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "collective": collectively, collectives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Collective" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celestite, colectivel, Collectif, collectivit, Collessie, pollutive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: covellite.

-3 letters: collect.

-4 letters: citole, collet, collie, etoile, ocelli, veloce, violet.

-5 letters: celli, cello, civet, clove, colic, covet, elect, elite, evict, evite, level, lieve, lotic, oleic, olive, telic, teloi, toile, voice, voile, volte, volti.

+1 letter: collectives.

+2 letters: collectively, collectivise, collectivize.

+3 letters: collectivised, collectivises, collectivized, collectivizes.

+4 letters: collectivities.