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Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
Bonnie Bassler

Meaning of "collective" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLLECTIVE

collective  [kəˈlɛktɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLLECTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Collective can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLLECTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, but can be that as well. The term "collective" is sometimes used to describe a species as a whole—for example, the human collective.

Definition of collective in the English dictionary

The first definition of collective in the dictionary is formed or assembled by collection. Other definition of collective is forming a whole or aggregate. Collective is also of, done by, or characteristic of individuals acting in cooperation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLLECTIVE


deflective
dɪˈflɛktɪv
detective
dɪˈtɛktɪv
effective
ɪˈfɛktɪv
elective
ɪˈlɛktɪv
inflective
ɪnˈflɛktɪv
irreflective
ɪrɪˈflɛktɪv
neglective
nɪˈɡlɛktɪv
non-reflective
ˌnɒnrɪˈflɛktɪv
nonselective
ˌnɒnsɪˈlɛktɪv
objective
əbˈdʒɛktɪv
perspective
pəˈspɛktɪv
prospective
prəˈspɛktɪv
protective
prəˈtɛktɪv
recollective
ˌrɛkəˈlɛktɪv
reflective
rɪˈflɛktɪv
respective
rɪˈspɛktɪv
retroreflective
ˌrɛtrəʊrɪˈflɛktɪv
selective
sɪˈlɛktɪv
subjective
səbˈdʒɛktɪv
unreflective
ˌʌnrɪˈflɛktɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLLECTIVE

collection tin
collective agreement
collective bargaining
collective farm
collective fruit
collective memory
collective noun
collective ownership
collective pitch lever
collective security
collective unconscious
collectively
collectiveness
collectivisation
collectivise
collectivism
collectivist
collectivistic
collectivities
collectivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLLECTIVE

active
addictive
alternative
attractive
constrictive
constructive
corrective
cost-effective
destructive
directive
distinctive
inactive
interactive
predictive
proactive
productive
radioactive
reactive
reproductive
retrospective
seductive

Synonyms and antonyms of collective in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLLECTIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «collective» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of collective

Translation of «collective» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLLECTIVE

Find out the translation of collective to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of collective from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «collective» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

集体的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colectivo
570 millions of speakers

English

collective
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामूहिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُشْتَرَك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

общий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coletivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমষ্টিগত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

collectif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kolektif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kollektiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

集団の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공동의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bebarengan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tập thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामूहिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

toplu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

collettivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zbiorowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спільний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colectiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συλλογικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kollektiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gemensam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

felles
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of collective

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLECTIVE»

The term «collective» is very widely used and occupies the 8.224 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLECTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «collective» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «collective» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about collective

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLLECTIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word collective.
1
Shari Arison
As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.
2
Mikhail Bakunin
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
3
Bonnie Bassler
Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
4
Zygmunt Bauman
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
5
Isaiah Berlin
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
6
Georges Clemenceau
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
7
Robin Cook
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
8
Chuck D
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
9
James Daly
The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
10
Mahmoud Darwish
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLECTIVE»

Discover the use of collective in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to collective and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 ...
This book explains: Collaborative filtering techniques that enable online retailers to recommend products or media Methods of clustering to detect groups of similar items in a large dataset Search engine features -- crawlers, indexers, ...
Toby Segaran, 2007
2
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for ...
Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom, Co-Winner of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009!
Elinor Ostrom, 1990
3
On Collective Memory
This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.
Maurice Halbwachs, Lewis A. Coser, 1992
4
The Politics of Collective Violence
This book, first published in 2003, attempts to explain collective violence and to identify the best ways to mitigate it.
‎2003
5
Collective Security
This is the first comprehensive study of the role, powers and functions of international institutions in the area of peace and security, including both inter-state wars and crises and intra-state situations such as civil wars and serious ...
Alexander Orakhelashvili, 2011
6
Voices of Collective Remembering
This book draws on psychology, history, literary theory, semiotics, sociology, and political science to provide a comprehensive review of collective memory.
James V. Wertsch, 2002
7
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix.
Carl Gustav Jung, R. F. C. Hull, 1981
8
The Collective Memory Reader
In addition to the essay introducing the entire volume, a brief editorial essay introduces each of the sections, while brief capsules frame each of the 91 texts.
Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Daniel Levy, 2011
9
Social Conflicts and Collective Identities
With its ground-breaking scholarship, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities is sure to become a basic building block for the burgeoning conflict resolution field and for improved understanding of identity dynamics in human conflict
Patrick G. Coy, Lynne M. Woehrle, 2000
10
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that ...
Dennis Chong, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLECTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term collective is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Conservatives' collective tantrum over the pope has been a wonder …
'The right has long welcomed the role of the Catholic church as a conservative bulwark against the insidious influence of the left.' Photograph: ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
A collective sigh of relief; GC favorites dodge cobbles bullet
GC favorites Chris Froome (Sky) and Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) had a much more successful day on this year's Tour cobbles, compared ... «velonews.competitor.com, Jul 15»
3
Caspian Sea States To Hold Talks On Collective Security System
The Caspian sea states will discuss creating a "collective security system" on the sea at a meeting in Russia this fall, a Russian military official ... «EurasiaNet, Jul 15»
4
Collective sale of Gilstead Court off after twists and turns
The on-again off-again collective sale of Gilstead Court in Newton is not going ahead after all. The final word on the matter, which has dragged ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
5
Updated: Droga5 ECD Steve Coll departs to join With Collective with …
UPDATED: Steve Coll has departed Droga5 just 15 months after joining the struggling agency to become partner and chief creative officer with ... «MuMbrella, Jul 15»
6
American Authors, Collective Soul, Montgomery Gentry complete Du …
Officials at the Du Quoin State Fair announced Tuesday that American Authors, Collective Soul and Montgomery Gentry will round out the ... «The Southern, Jul 15»
7
Compact between collective and personal responsibility can be …
SINGAPORE: Singapore's social policies should be shaped in a way that the compact between collective and personal responsibilities is not ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
8
War against terrorism: Ours is collective national victory of a nation …
“Ours is collective national victory of a nation so resolute and determined to root out terrorism from our region,” said the COAS according to a ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Collective Soul - The World I Know (Video)
Collective Soul - The World I Know (Video). Email. An error occurred. Unable to execute Javascript. 12 hours ago. Related Stories. American Authors, Collective ... «The Southern, Jul 15»
10
US start-up collective comes to Rotterdam
Rotterdam at night The US start-up collective Cambridge Innovation Center is to open its first overseas offices in Rotterdam, the Financieele ... «DutchNews.nl, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Collective [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/collective>. May 2024 ».
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