3syllables
collective
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Definitions ofcollective
1noun
- A farm owned by a collection of people
- (especially in communist countries) one of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
- (grammar) a collective noun or name
- (by extension) a group dedicated to a particular cause or interest
1adjective
- Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated
Example: "the collective body of a nation"
- Tending to collect; forming a collection
- Having plurality of origin or authority
- (grammar) expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form
- Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
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