collective

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Small groups make worse decisions than large scale collective "marketplaces" of ideas and thought.

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Quick take

members of a cooperative enterprise

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of collective gathered in one view.

noun

members of a cooperative enterprise

adjective

done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"

adjective

forming a whole or aggregate

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for collective.

noun

members of a cooperative enterprise

adjective

done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"

adjective

forming a whole or aggregate

adjective

set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms"

Example sentences

Small groups make worse decisions than large scale collective "marketplaces" of ideas and thought.

Or are you all too self-inflated to realize that you are part of a public collective?

Oracle claims it was registered as a "collective work" and that this gives it the right to sue on a component part of the work only.

It's a collective emergent phenomenon that prints invoices.

Instead, there is a collective bargaining system, which sets minimum salaries for each industry.

Or does the collective opinion depend on whether HN readers stand to benefit financially?

Charities and government subsidies do not fill the voids required by collective resource allocation.

That's mainly why I come here, to peer into the collective unconcious of the californian ivy-league portfolio-owning hivemind.

How do we, IT savvy people capable of monitoring, testing and verifying this stuff, use our collective skills to monitor each ISP and communicate who is doing the best/worst job?As long as there is at least one ISP provider who is not throttling traffic, we should reward that ISP that does not discriminate on web traffic, and punish the ones that do.