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collective

/kəˈlɛktɪv/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A farm owned by a collection of people
  2. (especially in communist countries) one of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  3. (grammar) a collective noun or name
  4. (by extension) a group dedicated to a particular cause or interest
  5. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated
  6. Tending to collect; forming a collection
  7. Having plurality of origin or authority
  8. (grammar) expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form
  9. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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