collective
pronunciation
How to pronounce collective in British English:
UK [kəˈlektɪv]
How to pronounce collective in American English:
US [kəˈlektɪv]
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- Noun:
- members of a cooperative enterprise
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- Adjective:
- done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
- forming a whole or aggregate
- set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government
Word Origin
- collective (adj.)
- early 15c., from Middle French collectif, from Latin collectivus, from collectus (see collect). As a noun, short for collective farm (in the USSR) it dates from 1925. collective farm first attested 1919 in translations of Lenin. Collective bargaining coined 1891 by Beatrice Webb; defined in U.S. 1935 by the Wagner Act. Collective noun is recorded from 1510s; collective security first attested 1934 in speech by Winston Churchill.
Example
- 1. He also wants to make collective bargaining more flexible .
- 2. The england football team exemplified this collective delusion , and the country 's rampant materialism .
- 3. The above is mostly reflecting on the collective harvesting .
- 4. But the main culprit is a collective , premature shift to fiscal austerity by governments .
- 5. After the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 foreign investors rushed to snap up former state-owned and collective farms .