From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcollectivecol‧lec‧tive1 /kəˈlektɪv/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる adjective [only before noun]EVERYONEshared or made by every member of a group or societya collective decision made by all board membersour collective responsibility for the environmentExamples from the Corpuscollective• The decision to launchnuclearweapons must be collective.• A jury's verdict is the result of a collectiveagreement.• Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimatecollectiveeffort to protect our children" and said he supported them.• The collectiveexperience of achieving this successvalidates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.• The presentcrisis is a result of the collectivefailure of the political parties to put forward a plausibleeconomicprogramme.• People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collectivefarms are replacing small landholdings.• collectiveownership• The bureau was without a manager for some time, so the staff took collectiveresponsibility for all the tasks.• Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.• Unless we act now to protect the environment, we shall have failed in our collective responsibility to futuregenerations.• Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhoodopportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.• Somehow, Willingham has to lift the collectivespirit of his team.• Sometimesba just means from, or a small collectiveunit, like the Abanabugerere means people who live in Bugerere.• It seems that our collectivewish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite.collective responsibility• Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.• You should just elect people to Parliament and have collective responsibility.• The courts have not been given a mandate to spell out collective responsibilities, and even less to police them.• In so far as leaksadvertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility, as well as the confidentiality of proceedings.• These are examples of collective responsibility for pastwrongs.• Civilservants are instructed to safeguard the collective responsibility of ministers.• Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.• Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.Related topics: Companiescollectivecollective2 noun [countable]1TOGETHERa group of people who work together to run something such as a business or farm, and who share the profits equally2BBCthe business or farm that is run by this type of groupExamples from the Corpuscollective• Following Bagehot or modernfunctionalsociology, the assertion is made that the figure of the sovereignbinds together the nationalcollective.• A women's collective runs the small cafe across the street.• The first breeze came to me as Connors pulled in the collective.• I pulled the collective to my armpit and waited for the noise.• When all gauges showed green, I slowly raised the collective to pull the Huey into a hover.From Longman Business Dictionarycollectivecol‧lec‧tive /kəˈlektɪv/ adjective [only before a noun]1ECONOMICS collective farm/factory a farm or factory that is owned by a government and controlled by the people who work in itIn the 1990s, the collective farm system collapsed in post-Soviet Russia.2shared by several peopleThis has to be a collective decision.Management must take collective responsibility for the bank’s collapse.