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ADJ
集体的;共同的
Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
例句
It was a collective decision...
这是集体的决定。
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
该国的政界人士均已松了口气。
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ADJ
总的;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.
他们的总量不是太大。
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ADJ
集合的;总括的
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.
社会科学是一个统称，涵盖一系列的独立学科。
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N-COUNT
集体企业;合作农场
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.
他会确保自己参与集体企业的各项决策。