aggregative
- adjective
- /ˈæɡrɪɡeɪtɪv/
- Specialized
- The project aimed to create an aggregative model that included data from multiple sources.
- aggregative warfare
Examples
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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.
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The aggregative effect of these responses by individual colonists can also precipitate changes at the environmental level.
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An aggregative form of association is the reverse image of the organic.
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In addition to the aggregative advantage, class action lawsuits also provide a way for private enforcement of the law.
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Because these groups' respective interests do not fully coincide, they must be resolved through some aggregative process, institution, or rule(s).
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Instead, the people responsible for formulating and implementing both monetary and fiscal policy actions concentrate primarily on aggregative objectives.
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The scholarship suggests that those aggregative aspects of the right have remained underappreciated and underdeveloped in the doctrine for two related reasons.
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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.
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I think modern client recruitment techniques in aggregative litigation, such as class actions and consolidations, are effectively eliminating restrictions on solicitation.
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The aggregative nature of the city's population makes it a melting pot of cultures.
Synonyms
Showing the total after several parts are added
Made by combining several separate amounts into one total
Antonyms
How Collected
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.