collective

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The theme set by the collective is the appropriately rhizomatic "1000 Plateaus".

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  1. adjective Assembled into or viewed as a whole.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.
  3. noun An undertaking, such as a business operation, set up on the principles or system of collectivism.

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  • The work that we do as a collective, as an Ultra-red collective, is not our identity. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • In the same post talking about the FBI involvement, Greenwald posts: the extraordinary blog item I linked to yesterday from Eileen Clancy, one of the founders of I-Witness Video - a NYC-based video collective which is in St. Paul to document the policing of the protests around this week's Republican National Convention, just as they did at the —  Left In Lowell
  • In the same post talking about the FBI involvement, Greenwald posts: the extraordinary blog item I linked to yesterday from Eileen Clancy, one of the founders of I-Witness Video -- a NYC-based video collective which is in St. Paul to document the policing of the protests around this week's Republican National Convention, just as they did at the —  Blue Mass. Group - Front Page
  • Founded in 1949 as a collective-defense pact against the Soviet Union, NATO spanned continents and the Atlantic Ocean. —  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • Judging by the amount of bad C / C++ code out there, I'd say that the borg collective is alive and well. —  OSNews
 

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  1. = French collectif = Spanish colectivo = Portuguese collectivo = Italian collettiro, from Latin collectivus, from collectus, past participle of colligere, collect: see collect, v.
 

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/kəˈlɛktɪv/
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