collectivity
collective
noun[ C ]
uk /kəˈlek.tɪv/ us /kəˈlek.tɪv/
an organization or business that is owned and controlled by the people who work in it联合组织;联合体;集体企业

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collective | American Dictionary

collective
adjective
us/kəˈlek·tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group of people:
It was a collective decision/effort.

collectively

adverbus/kəˈlek·tɪv·li/
The industry is willing to work collectively to find a solution.

collective | Business English

collective
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /kəˈlektɪv/us
done or shared by every member of a group:
collective action/effort/decisionIt will require a collective effort from government, providers, and the media to meet our goals.
collective responsibility/rightsAll directors take collective responsibility for board decisions.
collective
noun[ C ]
uk /kəˈlektɪv/us
an organization or business which is owned and controlled by the people who work in it:
One appeal of collectives is that they reduce risk.
a collective farm

Examples of collective

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Moreover, this is an analogy between plant life, seen as developing according to a single pattern, and human collectives - in other words, a metonymy.
A similar process of 'approximation' took place with the alternative collectives and citizens' initiatives and the state.
The norm provided collectives with a natural incentive to monitor their own members' behaviour.
Each household became responsible for its contractually assigned output quota, and for its share of taxes and the collective's other expenses.
They form collectives, as cell aggregates, neural centers, and coordinated neural centers.
The entire arm control system includes all the collectives, and through them, the constituent neurons.
Since the early 1980s, collectives and private grain traders have gradually been allowed to trade grain.
In order to meaningfully assert this, these collectives must be capable of expressing certain attitudes, beliefs, or values.
Skeptics characterized many shtetl collectives as "dwarflike" and lacking in future prospects.
In his approach, the nouns listed in and would not be considered as collectives.
Unlike internal plurals, 'genuine' collectives cannot be preceded by the plural determiners these, those, and numerals.
Physicians may belong to both corporate and bargaining collectives that, if untrustworthy, may influence the trust that patients have in physicians.
We also trust individual physicians as physicians, as representatives of their voluntarily selected collectives.
The final curtain on collectives has not been drawn.
Output from foreign-funded firms in 1991 grew much faster than that from state-owned enterprises, collectives and private domestic concerns.
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