COLLECTIVE

Pronunciation (US):

 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)

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)

• COLLECTIVE (adjective)

Meaning:

Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

Synonyms:

collective; corporate

Context examples:

a joint identity / the collective mind / the corporate good

Similar:

joint (united or combined)

Meaning:

Forming a whole or aggregate

Similar:

knockdown ((furniture) easily assembled and dismantled)

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

assembled; built; made-up (formed by fitting or joining components together)

aggregate; aggregated; aggregative; mass (gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole)

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

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)

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)