Usually means: Group working together for goals.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word collective:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. collective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collective, collective, collective, collective: Wordnik
  7. collective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collective: Wiktionary
  9. collective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. collective: Dictionary.com
  13. collective: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. collective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Collective (BBC), Collective (Clock DVA album), Collective (disambiguation), Collective, The Collective (Cecil Brooks III album), The Collective (Shreveport), The Collective (band), The Collective (comics), The Collective (company), The Collective (mountain biking): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Collective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. collective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. collective: Rhymezone
  19. collective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. collective: Free Dictionary
  21. collective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. collective: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. collective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collective: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collective: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)
  3. collective: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collective: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
adjective:  Tending to collect; forming a collection.
adjective:  Having plurality of origin or authority.
adjective:  (grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
adjective:  (obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
noun:  A farm owned by a collection of people.
noun:  (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
noun:  (grammar) A collective noun or name.
noun:  (by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
noun:  The flight control used to control a helicopter's ascent or descent.

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