collective1 adjectivecollective2 noun
collectivecol‧lec‧tive1 /kəˈlektɪv/ ●○○ adjective [only before noun] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- collective ownership
- A jury's verdict is the result of a collective agreement.
- Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimate collective effort to protect our children" and said he supported them.
- The bureau was without a manager for some time, so the staff took collective responsibility for all the tasks.
- The decision to launch nuclear weapons must be collective.
- The present crisis is a result of the collective failure of the political parties to put forward a plausible economic programme.
- Unless we act now to protect the environment, we shall have failed in our collective responsibility to future generations.
- Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.
- Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
- It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite.
- People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.
- Somehow, Willingham has to lift the collective spirit of his team.
- Sometimes ba just means from, or a small collective unit, like the Abanabugerere means people who live in Bugerere.
- The collective experience of achieving this success validates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.
Longman Language Activatorfeelings that everyone has, something that everyone does etc
done, felt, used etc by all the people in a group or all the people in the world: · There does not appear to be universal agreement on the future of the British monarchy.· Support for the government is by no means universal.have universal appeal (=be liked by everyone): · It is not easy to write a song that has universal appeal.
if a group of people or a decision they make is unanimous , all the members of the group agree about something: · Many party members agreed with their leader, but they certainly weren't unanimous.somebody is unanimous that: · Medical opinion is unanimous that John's condition is unlikely to improve.somebody is unanimous in (doing) something: · The meeting was unanimous in adopting the proposals.unanimous decision/agreement/verdict etc (=a decision that everyone in a group agrees on): · The committee made a unanimous decision to expel the three students.· The resolution was affirmed by a unanimous vote.
collective decisions, responsibilities, guilt etc, are shared or made by every member of a group: · Unless we act now to protect the environment, we shall have failed in our collective responsibility to future generations.· The present crisis is a result of the collective failure of the political parties to put forward a plausible economic programme.
something that is common to everyone is something that everyone shares: · Luckily we all had a common language, English, which meant we could communicate with each other.· Monkeys and apes are so similar that it is reasonable to say they have a common ancestor.common to: · These problems are common to all modern societies.
if people share a feeling, belief etc, they all have that feeling, belief etc: · None of us are close friends but we all share an interest in sport.· One thing united all three men - they shared a burning hatred of the political regime under which they lived.
done by people working together a joint decision, statement, effort, report etc is made by people or groups working together, not by just one of them: · We both wanted to move to Canada - it was a joint decision.· a joint declaration by Israeli and Palestinian leadersa joint effort: · "Did you cook the dinner, Jane?" "No, it was a joint effort."
combined actions are done by people or groups who try to do something together which they could not do alone: · The combined efforts of four police officers and two paramedics were needed to lift the driver from the wreckage.· It was a combined operation involving troops from the US and Europe.
a collective decision, action, or agreement is made by everyone in a group or organization, not by just one or two of its members: · A jury's verdict is the result of a collective agreement.· Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimate collective effort to protect our children" and said he supported them.collective responsibility (for something) (=when everyone in a group shares responsibility for its decisions and actions): · The bureau was without a manager for some time, so the staff took collective responsibility for all the tasks.
use this about an activity that involves people working together, especially in order to achieve something that will bring an advantage to both of them: a collaborative effort: · A manager's main task is to coordinate the collaborative efforts of a number of people.collaborative project/research/venture etc: · The new system was the product of a collaborative project between Apple and IBM.· a collaborative youth training program involving several businesses
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
a collective decision made by all board members our collective responsibility for the environmentCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a collective decision made by all board members our collective responsibility for the environment (=one that a number of people make together)· Society should take collective decisions about individual rights and responsibilities.
(=guilt shared by each member of a group or society)· Should we feel some kind of collective guilt for what happened in the past?
(=shared equally by a group of people)· Head teachers should encourage a sense of collective responsibility among teachers.
(=a sigh that many people give at the same time)· She heard a collective sigh of relief as she announced her acceptance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Private collective action is possible and does occur.· These movements appear as dispersed resistance, but they also are a form of collective action in the face of the crisis.· However, if demand falls collective action poses less of a threat, and may even be beneficial.· But they did manage one collective action that ought not go unremarked.· Like its predecessor, the new regime is for individual achievement, not collective action.· I believe in movements, collective action to influence the future, and all that.· The belief in collective action for change was mentioned earlier.· They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action.
· A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment.· Industrial disputes and negotiations, and union and collective agreements and recent redundancies.· The vendor will be required to warrant that no trade unions have been recognised and that there are no collective agreements.· Users can reach their own collective agreements on usage, but these may be costly to organize and enforce.· Between 1976 and 1987, there were seven collective agreements.
· But much of the collective bargaining went beyond legal minima.· The unions flourished, gaining over 4 million more members by 1945, and collective bargaining became more widely accepted.· As a result, the scope of autonomous collective bargaining was restricted.· Under these circumstances, the wages of many different types of labour are determined by the process of collective bargaining.· These considerations will be an important influence on collective bargaining.· Faith in collective bargaining could not take root.· The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers' Statute.· In both countries collective bargaining had emerged in a form strongly influenced by product market considerations.
· But, since the heyday of the missionaries, the collective consciousness has nevertheless undergone a sea-change.· If the nub of the nation lies in collective sentiment the obvious question is how does this collective consciousness arise?
· Contemporary Marxist urban sociology places much less emphasis on the supposed necessity for the state to be engaged in collective consumption.· In other words, they cut first and most their personal consumption rather than collective consumption.· But the distinction between personal and collective consumption remains fairly clear.
· The party groups meet on a regular basis and make collective decisions on policy.· General will should ensure the equality and liberty necessary for active citizenship -; taking collective decisions.· Itis during the plenary sessions that opinions and collective decisions are voted on.· We make a collective decision, together, for peace or for strife.· Somewhere-maybe in the smoke-filled rooms of the Knickerbocker Club-there was a collective decision to raise the stakes.
· They are purely private means devised by the neurotic to achieve what is achieved in society by collective effort.· But when they were finally received, a surprise Most books are a collective effort to some extent.· Occasional collective efforts by prisoners to improve their lot have mostly been sharply put down.· But their internal will for collective effort was weak.· It is only through collective effort and strength that we can ensure that a fair deal can be achieved for Bank Officials.· Liberals, Sowell claims, share a belief that people can improve their lives through collective effort.
· The collective experience of achieving this success validates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.· The burden is to make a learning source out of the collective experience.· These beliefs, in turn, can be modified only through collective experience.
· Farmers given right to leave collective farms with allotment of land and equipment.· In October 1956 collectivization began, with the establishment of collective farms.· Agriculture is crippled, too, by the miserable conditions on the collective farms.· Milda was no longer allowed to live in Riga but had been ordered to do hard physical work on a collective farm.· People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.· He doesn't mean as drones on some collective farm.· Before independence Valeriy was a farmer on a local collective farm.· Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms.
· Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management.· A group of teenage girls could create their own music unique to them as a badge of their collective identity.
· Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.· There are now also collective investments in a range of zeros.· The profits from capitalism are redistributed to millions of people, not through taxing and public spending but through collective investment trusts.
· It has a collective leadership in the form of an organisational bureau.· A nebulous collective leadership, including the chiefs of the powerful armed forces, may still be holding the balance of power.· In the Soviet Union there was a pattern of swings between single and collective leadership in the post-Second World War period.· This style has been reinforced by the values of partisanship and collective leadership of the Cabinet.· In such systems, many people in the community share power relatively equally, as a collective leadership.· There is some talk of a collective leadership, but that would not last.
· The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.· What he contributes as a participant in collective life ranges from reform to radical re-structuring.· There seems to be some unconscious connection between Weegee and the collective life of New York.· He is strongly dedicated to the sharing of sound information with others in the collective life.· To a degree that collective life indeed is creative social experience, specific goals may not be predetermined.· Occasionally Cooley exhibits a multi-dimensional scheme that promises to liberate the imagination for the many sides of collective life.· The craft too, can be applied to the local units of collective life.· The legacy might be what scholars who have taken him seriously have learned from him about human collective life.
· This provides firms with large collective memories.· It is the first collective memory of the new family, paradoxically shared even by children who were unborn at the time.· Karadzic's continued freedom and the collective memory loss may suit international politics.· There was fear of poison gas, in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.· Within the collective memory of the North Shore resides an entire history of its natural phenomena.
· Take our changing use of collective nouns to describe the groups of people we work with.· Our collective noun is an Apprehension of Agents.
· These are examples of collective responsibility for past wrongs.· You should just elect people to Parliament and have collective responsibility.· Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.· Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.· Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.· In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility, as well as the confidentiality of proceedings.· Civil servants are instructed to safeguard the collective responsibility of ministers.· The courts have not been given a mandate to spell out collective responsibilities, and even less to police them.
· A tall order, but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West.· As a result the Edinburgh Conference of 1936 passed resolutions leaving the Labour Party supporting collective security but opposing rearmament.· To counteract Western influence Soviet officials advocated a system of collective security.· It also argued for collective security arrangements as a means of building confidence and security in the region.· This put paid to Baldwin's attempt to pose as a champion of collective security.· Peace, in other words, depends solely on collective security.· Nation states could only coexist peaceably if a strong collective security arrangement were respected by all.· The league was charged also with responsibility for collective security, so that individual states could embark on a programme of disarmament.
· The watching deities gave a collective sigh.· You could hear a collective sigh of relief.· A collective sigh of relief seemed to whistle from every pore of the house as I walked away.· There was a collective sigh of relief.
· The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.
WORD FAMILYnouncollectioncollectorcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivismcollectivizationadjectivecollectedcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivistverbcollectcollectivizeadverbcollectively
shared or made by every member of a group or society: a collective decision made by all board members our collective responsibility for the environmentcollective1 adjectivecollective2 noun
collectivecollective2 noun [countable] 1a group of people who work together to run something such as a business or farm, and who share the profits equally2the business or farm that is run by this type of group