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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Collective \Col*lect"ive\, n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Collective \Col*lect"ive\, a. [L. collectivus: cf F. collectif.] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as the {collective} body of a nation. --Bp. Hoadley. 2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] ``Critical and collective reason.'' --Sir T. Browne. 3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form as a collective name or noun like assembly, army, jury, etc 4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons. --Young. 5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. {Collective fruit} (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like -- called also {multiple fruit}. --Gray. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: collective adj 1: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" [syn: {corporate}] 2: forming a whole or aggregate [ant: {distributive}] 3: set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms" n : members of a cooperative enterprise
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