Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
例句
It was a collective decision...這是集體的決定。The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.該國的政界人士均已松了口氣。
ADJ
總的;集合的
A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has.
例句
Their collective volume wasn't very large.他們的總量不是太大。
ADJ
集合的;總括的
The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.
例句
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.社會科學是一個統稱，涵蓋一系列的獨立學科。
N-COUNT
集體企業;合作農場
A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits.
例句
He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.他會確保自己參與集體企業的各項決策。
英漢詞典釋義
adv.
全體地；共同地
the right of workers to bargain collectively工人集體談判的權利The houses are owned collectively by the company.這些房子屬公司集體所有。They have no alternative but to resign collectively.他們除了集體辭職以外是別無選擇了。All members of the Cabinet are collectively responsible for decisions taken.所有內閣成員對所作決定集體負責。
英英詞典釋義
Adverb
1. in conjunction with; combined;
"Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage""we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together"