Definition of "collective" []

• Assembled into or viewed as a whole. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision. (adjective)
• An undertaking, such as a business operation, set up on the principles or system of collectivism. (noun)
• Grammar A collective noun. (noun)

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• "Ayers uses the word collective more often and in more ways than even Marx did."
• "So to my friends who hate collective purchasing and I use the word collective to spur them to action, it is incumbent upon you to find a solution that will allow the individual consumer to have the security and access to the same level of health care that can be gotten through some form of insurance."
• "The term collective will be used to describe the conception of a group right as a shared or joint right, since it conceives a right-holding group as a “collection” of individuals, albeit a collection that is bound together in a way that enables them to hold their right collectively."