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aggregative

aggregative

1 8.6
Many separate parts come together to make one whole
  • adjective
  • /ˈæɡrɪɡeɪtɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : agregativo
  • The project aimed to create an aggregative model that included data from multiple sources.
  • aggregative warfare

Examples

  • For example, Iris Marion Young argues that in the "aggregative" model of democracy, "democracy is a process of aggregating the preferences of citizens," who are understood as discrete individuals.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The aggregative effect of these responses by individual colonists can also precipitate changes at the environmental level.

    Academic text (1994)
  • An aggregative form of association is the reverse image of the organic.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In addition to the aggregative advantage, class action lawsuits also provide a way for private enforcement of the law.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Because these groups' respective interests do not fully coincide, they must be resolved through some aggregative process, institution, or rule(s).

    Academic text (1994)
  • Instead, the people responsible for formulating and implementing both monetary and fiscal policy actions concentrate primarily on aggregative objectives.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The scholarship suggests that those aggregative aspects of the right have remained underappreciated and underdeveloped in the doctrine for two related reasons.

    Academic text (2017)
  • For example, although trade balance deterioration was widespread in the first half of the 1980s, neither detailed industry data nor the aggregative data indicate that U.S. producers suffered greatly from the increased trade deficit.

    Academic text (1994)
  • I think modern client recruitment techniques in aggregative litigation, such as class actions and consolidations, are effectively eliminating restrictions on solicitation.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The aggregative nature of the city's population makes it a melting pot of cultures.

Synonyms

aggregate
vsaggregative
21 5.8

Showing the total after several parts are added

is about relating to the gathering of separate units into a collective whole
aggregated
vsaggregative
  • Specialized
5.6

Made by combining several separate amounts into one total

is about the general relation of parts gathered together rather than the result

Antonyms

dispersive
  • Specialized
1 7.9

To cause tiny pieces, light or sound to spread out

How Collected

consolidated
1 4.9
aggregative
  • Specialized
1 8.6
collective
240 3.9
clustered
4.1
individual
2.3
scattered
1 3.6

Surface Forms

aggregative positive

Morphology

aggregative = aggregate (transparent) = aggregate + ive

Formed from the verb 'aggregate' with the adjectival suffix '-ive', meaning 'relating to aggregation'.

Etymology

Aggregative comes from a Latin root greg meaning 'flock' or 'group', and it shares this idea with common words like aggregate and congregate. So something aggregative is made of separate parts that are 'gathered' together into one group or whole.