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Adjective: collective  ku'lek-tiv
  1. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
    "the collective mind"
    - corporate
     
  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: collective  ku'lek-tiv
  1. Members of a cooperative enterprise

Derived forms: collectives

See also: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, clustered, collectively, collectivised [Brit], collectivize, collectivized, integrative, joint, knockdown, mass, socialist, socialistic, united

Type of: enterprise

Antonym: distributive

Encyclopedia: Collective