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1. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
   "the collective mind";
   - corporate
    
2. Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government
   "collective farms"
    
3. Forming a whole or aggregate

1. Members of a cooperative enterprise

Derived forms: collectives

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

Type of: enterprise

Antonym: distributive

Encyclopedia: Collective