Definition of "collegium" []

• An executive council or committee of equally empowered members, especially one supervising an industry, commissariat, or other organization in the Soviet Union. (noun)
• A group whose members pursue shared goals while working within a framework of mutual trust and respect: "This standing firm ... enables the college to be a community, a collegium of students and faculty working at common problems and possibilities” ( Robert A. Spivey). (noun)

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• "There were in Rome other, more official bodies which bore the title collegium, as the"
• "The stated aim of the collegium is "to revive the multicultural Belarussian tradition, to promote the democratic transition of Belarussian society within the European civilization and pan-European integration process.""
• "The word collegium derived from con, "with", and lego, "to select", had the literal meaning of an aggregation of persons united in any office or for any common purpose."