Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a collective manner; in a mass or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly: as, the citizens of a state collectively considered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
collection ; in acollective manner; together as a whole; bunched together; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in conjunction with; combined
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sabar, the national pulse of Senegal, is also the term collectively used to describe the intricate and sophisticated genre of Senegalese inspired dancing that originated on the urban streets of Dakar.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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Sabar, the national pulse of Senegal, is also the term collectively used to describe the intricate and sophisticated genre of Senegalese inspired dancing that originated on the urban streets of Dakar.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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They're taking our name collectively to support Al Jazeera, but they're doing it without public approval,'' Kaufman said.
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While you sleep, there are also forces that push you toward waking up, which I refer to collectively as the “drive to wake.”
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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While you sleep, there are also forces that push you toward waking up, which I refer to collectively as the “drive to wake.”
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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What this has done to us collectively is the same thing it has done to us individually.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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What this has done to us collectively is the same thing it has done to us individually.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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What this has done to us collectively is the same thing it has done to us individually.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The Tea Party collectively is not extreme; it is too diverse/disorganized for that — its got loads of extremists puling it in loads of directions and the sum of these vectors is as of yet unkown
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What this has done to us collectively is the same thing it has done to us individually.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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