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Collective

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.

Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛktɪv/

What “Collective” means

Adj

  1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
  2. Tending to collect; forming a collection.
  3. Having plurality of origin or authority.
  4. Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
  5. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

Noun

  1. A farm owned by a collection of people.
  2. One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
  3. A collective noun or name.
  4. A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
  5. The flight control used to control a helicopter's ascent or descent.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin colligō Latin collēctus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin collēctīvusder. Middle French collectifder. English collective From Middle French collectif, from Latin collēctīvus, from collēctus, past participle of colligō (“to collect”), from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”). Compare French collectif. Doublet of colectivo.

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