collective
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3.9
- adjective
- /kəˈlɛktɪv/
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colectivo
- From artists to scientists, together our collective impact changes the world.
- collective action
- a collective decision
- collective effort
Everything together makes the collective experience we're having.
- Everything together makes the collective experience we're having.
- There are ways to restrict even seemingly collective goods like Fire Protection.
- So it just brings about a collective humility.
- But do I think it's a collective action problem?
- And this, it's not wrong that this is a collective opinion as well.
- And maybe we'll carry the collective costs of Y&Z;.
- We've developed the collective will to protect each other.
- So you have to understand that it's kind of a collective leadership at the top.
- And then finally, it's going to conclude with this chapter on collective happiness.
- And I don't, I think that we have developed this collective numbing, myself included.
- We are, and then the world of appearances, the collective belief impacts us.
- Compassion, gratitude, all self transcended emotions for collective and planetary well-being.
- But we need to be a collective society that comes together.
- Where we've become we we've developed a kind of collective learned helplessness.
- I feel like it is more a collective move and a collective effort.
- Napoleon once said that collective crimes incriminate no one.
- So one one guy calls it collective learning.
- The more the people in the group know, the better its collective decisions will be.
Examples
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We've suffered a collective trauma.
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In a collective decision-making process, everyone contributes their opinions and ideas.
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Everything together makes the collective experience we're having.
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But do I think it's a collective action problem?
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People make choices in collective decision making, in politics.
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We have a, you know, we have a collective sense of obligations.
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I thought this was a democracy and I thought a democracy was based on the collective will of the people.
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We've developed the collective will to protect each other.
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Such relationships constitute the social basis for collective action in various irrigation tasks.
Academic text (2008) -
The team achieved success through their collective efforts and shared vision.
Synonyms
∞
2.2
Joined as one group and working toward the same goal
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3.5
Willing to work with other people to reach a shared goal
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4.1
Done by people acting together as a group
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4.5
Made by several people or groups working together
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3.9
Shared by all people in a group, like a garden or food
Treats a group as one whole instead of separate people
About living in a group where people share things and work together
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
33
3.5
Talks between an employer and workers about pay and working conditions
- Archaic
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6.3
A large farm where many people work together, usually run by the government
- Specialized
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5.0
A system where countries agree to defend each other to keep peace
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3.5
A written deal between an employer and employees, usually through a union, that sets pay and work conditions
- Specialized
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4.1
A word in singular form that names a group of people or things as one unit
How Collective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collective comes from an old Latin mix: com- meaning 'together' and legere meaning 'to gather', the same root behind the everyday word collect. So something called collective is shared or done 'together' by a group.