collective
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
Example
“the collective body of a nation”
Other meanings
Tending to collect; forming a collection.
Having plurality of origin or authority.
Related words
- anticollective
- collectivism
- collectivist
- collectivization
- noncollective
- collective bargaining
- collective buying
- collective investment scheme
- collective title
- collective agreement
- collective call sign
- collective action
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "collēctīvus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “collective” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.