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单词 collective
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collective
(kəlektɪv )
Word forms: collectives
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
It was a collective decision.
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
Synonyms: joint, united, shared, common  
collectively adverb
They collectively decided to recognize the changed situation.
The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has.
Their collective volume wasn't very large.
Synonyms: combined, aggregate, composite, cumulative  
collectively adverb [ADVERB with verb]
In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
collectively adverb [ADVERB with verb]
...other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).
4. countable noun
A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits. [business]
He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
Collocations:
art collective
This summer, the grooviest thing to be was a member of an art collective (essentially a gang of people who like each other).
Times, Sunday Times
And if any of them need sponsorship for their art collective or community vegetable patch, well, they know who to call.
Times, Sunday Times
Us art collective published a book that collected some of the art work from their traveling collection.
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The art collective organizes various art expositions and events throughout the year, and a community volunteer organization mobilizes recycling education and efforts and youth activities in the town.
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He became involved as a founder and participant in many art collectives exploring artistic areas such as painting, installation and performance.
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artist collective
Any individual artist, organization or artist collective can apply for a grant.
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Nominators propose one exceptional individual, artist collective or performing group whom they believe deserves and would benefit from a $25,000 award.
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The festival, curated from the impulses of an artist collective, featured four plays and a repertory company of 17 actors who stretched through over 40 roles.
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Exhibitors include galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, curatorial groups and publications.
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The society focused on the promotion of arts and sciences in a broader sense than the artists collectives popular at the time.
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collective commitment
This imperative of determination, of collective commitment, becomes the dominant theme in the conversation.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As we go forward, we should embrace a collective commitment to encourage open trade and investment, while resisting the protectionism that would deepen this crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Throughout, a potentially dry scholarly exercise is enlivened by a collective commitment to iconoclasm.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
collective conscience
And yes, the album's 11 original songs have become indelibly etched on to the nation's collective conscience.
The Sun
They should view him as their collective conscience.
ST
But the voters' collective conscience had a better solution.
Times, Sunday Times
What better way to absolve our collective conscience than with an overblown gesture to a solitary whale?
Times, Sunday Times
That suggests an improbable degree of subtlety in our collective conscience.
Times, Sunday Times
collective consciousness
He detests the term 'lifestyle', but that's the concept that thousands of magazine articles established in the collective consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
By reinforcing our interdependencies, the coronavirus has compelled us to dial down ego in favour of collective consciousness.
Times,Sunday Times
A countdown of the celebs who that have most irritated our collective consciousness in 2008.
Times, Sunday Times
For more than a century, we have speculated on the idea of a collective consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
The more it seeps into the collective consciousness, the more self-fulfilling it becomes as people stock up at today's prices and demand bigger wage increases.
Times, Sunday Times
collective decision
It was, he insists, a collective decision and the best deal at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
It has been approaching for a while but last week you could feel the collective decision being made.
Times, Sunday Times
Young people have taken the collective decision to rhyme it with 'marriage', and the sticklers for the old way will soon be gone for ever.
Times, Sunday Times
Fearful that the strike would spread, the collective decision was to capitulate.
Times, Sunday Times
He had previously called for a collective decision despite a majority of his shadow cabinet supporting military action.
Times, Sunday Times
collective defence
It represents the biggest boost to collective defence since the 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
It has worked because all allies had confidence that, if push came to shove, all would honour the collective defence commitment.
Times, Sunday Times
The article also allows for allies to come to the collective defence of another country.
Times, Sunday Times
To bring the pledge up to date, western strategists must determine what level of cyberoffensive constitutes an act of war and a trigger for collective defence.
Times, Sunday Times
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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collective effort
The collective effort they put in was magnificent.
The Sun
Sometimes this collective effort blossoms into something beautiful, with flowers and butterflies and sun and sweet rain.
Times, Sunday Times
In times of crisis countries rely on the collective effort of citizens and businesses to pull them through.
Times,Sunday Times
At our level, a team has to be true to its name, and muster a collective effort that surpasses the opponent's.
Times, Sunday Times
He simply needs to turn in a solid performance and play his part in the collective effort to deliver 20 wickets.
Times, Sunday Times
collective enterprise
Science advances in symbiosis with technology, and via the collective enterprise of scientists worldwide - operating co-operatively but critically.
Times, Sunday Times
Company pensions are a collective enterprise that need strong voices in senior management and the boardroom.
Times, Sunday Times
Kibbutzim were run as collective enterprises within a free market system.
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The other traditionally significant enterprise form have been collective enterprises.
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In 1985 housing built by state and collective enterprises in cities and towns totaled 130 million square meters of floor space.
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collective experience
I say this as the leader of an organisation whose members boast years of collective experience of working in support of the planning process.
Times, Sunday Times
This was film as a force for social change and expression of collective experience, a mirror for the nation.
The Times Literary Supplement
People might be healed or cured individually, but the collective experience was centred around the event.
Times, Sunday Times
Field knew that he didn't want people to have the kind of collective experience that happens in traditional theatre.
Times, Sunday Times
They have a real appetite for being present at a collective experience.
Times, Sunday Times
collective expression of
Just a glance, a shrug of the shoulders and a collective expression of 'so what'.
Times, Sunday Times
We can provide help to offer services and support, at the same time enabling collective expression of grievances and distress, and developing resolution.
Times, Sunday Times
As the collective expression of self-defence, government should do no more than protect the life, liberty and property of individuals from other individuals and governments.
Globe and Mail
collective gasp
There was a collective gasp back on the hill.
canada.com
I remember the collective gasp in the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
At this there was a kind of collective gasp, and the entire audience rose to their feet and cheered and cheered.
Times,Sunday Times
There was, my friend said, an audible collective gasp from behind the easels, and a ripple of suppressed giggling.
Times,Sunday Times
But more importantly, it brought a collective gasp from newspapers, television reports and the nation as a whole.
The Sun
collective groan
There's a collective groan whenever designers show boho on the catwalk.
Times, Sunday Times
Its disappearance has wider implications, though, and for that reason fans around the country let out a collective groan.
Times, Sunday Times
The collective groan of the nation was almost audible this week as the two main political parties began the childish squabble that passes as a general election campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
You could hear the collective groan from home fans.
The Sun
On the subject of diets, new research saying we should eat at least 10 fruits and veg a day induced a collective groan.
Times, Sunday Times
collective guilt
The narrator records a collective guilt: 'it was the kindness that struck him down'.
The Times Literary Supplement
But even she found it impossible to accept her share of collective guilt.
Times, Sunday Times
This baleful phrase, implying conscious and unconscious collective guilt and distorted police priorities, came to be accepted as a self-evident truth.
Times, Sunday Times
The country seemed to be wallowing in collective guilt feelings, reinforced by a growing culture of dependency.
Times, Sunday Times
But that should intensify our collective guilt.
Times, Sunday Times
collective imagination
They, too, should stand in the collective imagination as an icon of inspiration.
Times, Sunday Times
But the programme unleashed our collective imagination and brought architecture and design into the realm of popular culture.
Times, Sunday Times
The show has a place in our collective imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
By the end of the 20th century it was embedded in our collective imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a very humbling experience, but it was also an admission that if you make anything, any theatrical event, it's about the collective imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
collective intelligence
This is a captive obsessive audience with the collective intelligence of a salt lake.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This is something like the idea of collective intelligence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Cultural diversity can generate empowerment and international collective intelligence, transformative learning, developing a transferable “ ingenium” in various contexts.
Florence Saint-Luc 2018, 'De la confrontation coopérative interculturelle à l'autoformation coopérative. Le cas des formateurs d'enseignants au sein du mouvement international de l'Ecole Moderne', Revista Eletrônica de Educação
collective knowledge
They accelerate our collective knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
Fresh thinking and collective knowledge must flow between nations as readily as investments and goods.
Times, Sunday Times
Their individual and collective knowledge of foods, medicinal plants, flight paths, overis land travel routes, and the entire natural world, leaves even the most learned of humans in the dust.
The Times Literary Supplement
Other related phrasings include cumulative knowledge, collective knowledge, pooled knowledge, or the wisdom of the crowd.
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It has been especially influential in software engineering where patterns have been used to document collective knowledge in the field.
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collective leadership
Can fans trust the clubs when there's no clarity of vision, no strength of collective leadership?
Times,Sunday Times
Its collective leadership has dozed through the alarm bells too long.
Times, Sunday Times
You symbolise, today, and always will, qualities of collective leadership, reconciliation, unity and forgiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
The other nine tribal generals, democratically elected and exercising collective leadership by vote, were quietly forgotten.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a manifesto for moderate, collective leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
collective psyche
This culture, threatened as it may be, still rules our collective psyche.
Times, Sunday Times
Winning a trophy tends to feel like closure so for the players to lift their collective psyche was impressive.
Times, Sunday Times
Memories of the 1970s and 1980s, when crime was rife, still loom large in the collective psyche.
Times, Sunday Times
These were plays that penetrated the grimiest recesses of our collective psyche to retrieve unforgettable images of tenderness and pain.
Times, Sunday Times
The country's otherworldly landscape of lava fields, geysers and waterfalls has surely also shaped the collective psyche.
Times, Sunday Times
collective punishment
Recent coalition targets include a water-bottling plant that aid workers say was chosen as part of a deliberate - and illegal - policy of collective punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
Their campaign repeated tendentious and often highly inaccurate terms such as 'collective punishment' and 'violation of international law'.
Times, Sunday Times
The police should not have the authority to enact collective punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
They deceived the people but the electorate did its bit and should not be subjected to what it perceives as indiscriminate collective punishment.
The Sun
Collective punishment - evicting innocent tenants along with the guilty - can play no part in our justice system.
Times, Sunday Times
collective response
Surely there are less obnoxious ways of examining individual and collective response?
Times, Sunday Times
The emphasis was on teamwork, shared decision-making, and a collective response to crises.
Times, Sunday Times
The class can quickly view collective responses to the multiple-choice questions electronically, allowing the teacher to differentiate instruction and learn where students need help most.
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collective sigh
The first overhit kick was met with a collective sigh.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There was a collective sigh of relief.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There is a collective sigh of relief around the table as the herbal tea is dispatched.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Otherwise, instead of taking a deep breath, the public will utter a collective sigh of despair.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Now that it has been returned to its brick exterior the neighbourhood has breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
collective soul
At the moment my players have this collective soul.
The Sun
And his manager believes his players have found a new 'collective soul' which makes them feel like brothers and not individuals.
The Sun
Being on a team where the collective soul lacks joy adversely impacts everyone.
Christianity Today
She's clearly capable of channelling something from the darkest part of our collective soul.
Times, Sunday Times
Together, they capture the collective soul of an era.
The Times Literary Supplement
collective spirit
The win, which enables his side to leapfrog their rivals for that coveted top-six finish, was a tribute to gritty determination and collective spirit.
Times, Sunday Times
Or was it a reconnection with the collective spirit of his country?
Times, Sunday Times
In our job you have to create some collective spirit and you need everybody to be on board and focused on it.
Times, Sunday Times
Worthiness, determination, pride and collective spirit are great traits, but there has to be more.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no collective spirit of shared hardship.
Times, Sunday Times
collective trauma
Back home, the war has inflicted a massive collective trauma.
Times, Sunday Times
It was very close to a collective trauma.
Times, Sunday Times
She was said to be comforting family members over the collective trauma last night.
The Sun
When times are hard, there comes an urge for hoofin' to abate the collective trauma; a showbiz version of the hemline index.
Times, Sunday Times
These are brief sketches, but around them gently blossoms a portrait of a city struggling to come to terms with collective trauma.
The Times Literary Supplement
collective understanding of
In the absence of the scientific understanding of the phenomenon, these superstitious interpretations were given even more space in the collective understanding of the day.
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The more rights we acquire — whether we demand them or not — the more fragmented becomes our collective understanding of how they should be defined, prioritised and enforced.
Times, Sunday Times
In the past, the collective understanding of advocacy was limited by institutional and contextual questions.
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collective vision
We do it with a collective vision and a collective plan.
The Sun
He said he was accepting the honour as recognition for sculpture as a 'collective vision'.
Times, Sunday Times
Realising a collective vision through collaboration, trust, constant curiosity and fun.
Times, Sunday Times
The private sector doesn't do collective vision, so we have to.
Times, Sunday Times
This collective vision finds expression in wild fanaticism.
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collective will
He weaved some sort of magic into their minds, added iron to their collective will.
Times, Sunday Times
It was won with style and real collective will.
The Sun
Once again we had the collective will triumphing not just over adversity, but common sense.
The Sun
A less talented team imbued with a collective will and stubbornness can achieve a great deal.
Times, Sunday Times
It was as if our collective will had dried up.
Times, Sunday Times
collective wisdom
Surely all the advice and collective wisdom can be found by clicking on its many threads?
Times, Sunday Times
My playing days persuaded me that collective wisdom and statistical evidence need not be rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
The 'collective wisdom' made possible by social networking could also become a powerful tool.
Times, Sunday Times
It was time for this collective wisdom to be shared.
ST
If we go this way in our collective wisdom as countries and social organizations, we face fantastic questions of how to really enforce such proposals.
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 集体的, 集体
Japanese: 集団の, 集団
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