COLLECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collective mean? 

• COLLECTIVE (noun)
  The noun COLLECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. members of a cooperative enterprise

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• COLLECTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective COLLECTIVE has 3 senses:

1. done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

2. forming a whole or aggregate

3. set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Members of a cooperative enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("collective" is a kind of...):

enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collective"):

collective farm (a farm operated collectively)

Derivation:

collectivise; collectivize (bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises)

• COLLECTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

Synonyms:

collective; corporate

Context example:

the corporate good

Similar:

joint (united or combined)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Forming a whole or aggregate

Similar:

agglomerate; agglomerated; agglomerative; clustered (clustered together but not coherent)

aggregate; aggregated; aggregative; mass (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

collectivised; collectivized (characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production)

knockdown ((furniture) easily assembled and dismantled)

Also:

integrative (combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole)

joint (united or combined)

united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)

Antonym:

distributive (serving to distribute or allot or disperse)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

Context example:

collective farms

Similar:

socialist; socialistic (advocating or following the socialist principles)

 Context examples 

The collective identity of the entirety of carbohydrates (glycans) in an organism.

(Glycome, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with any structural discontinuity in the material; collective term for cracks, splitting etc.

(Fracture of Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)

A collective term for pteroylglutamic acids and their oligoglutamic acid conjugates.

(Folic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Collective designation for those tissues capable of secreting hormones.

(Endocrine, NCI Thesaurus)

A way of denoting the collective genotype of a number of closely linked loci on a chromosome.

(Haplotype, NCI Thesaurus)

In Alaska, the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term.

(Inuit, NCI Thesaurus)

A collective name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, two territories in Palestine.

(Palestinian Territory, Occupied, NCI Thesaurus)

A collective term for precoordinated organ/neoplasm headings locating neoplasms by organ, as BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; etc.

(Neoplasm by Site, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Through the collective expertise of its member institutions, the NCCN develops, updates, and disseminates a complete library of clinical practice guidelines.

(National Comprehensive Cancer Network, NCI Thesaurus)

A collective generic term that refers here to a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states.

(CDISC SDTM Country Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)