collectively

[ kuh-lek-tiv-lee ]

adverb

1. as a whole group rather than as individual persons or things:

   There have been a number of different polls released in the last two weeks, and collectively they give us an accurate picture of public opinion.

2. according to collectivism, a system in which economic control, especially of the means of production, is shared or centralized:

   As one of the reforms, we developed agricultural production cooperatives in which almost 100% of the land is farmed collectively.

Other Words From

• non·col·lec·tive·ly adverb
• un·col·lec·tive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of collectively¹

collective ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Even the nation’s oldest and wealthiest museums collectively have had to lay off thousands of staff members.

From Vox

“That’s so 2020,” people collectively heaved, again and then again, during a year ravaged by a global pandemic, climate crises and political and social dissent.

From Washington Post

The reason Facebook and Google are collectively worth nearly $2 trillion is because they can easily target advertising because their consumers willingly tell them exactly what they like and don’t like.

From Freakonomics

If the last year has shown us anything, it’s that we aren’t doing enough collectively to protect the people most vulnerable to the virus.

From Washington Post

Even as we collectively barrel toward destruction of nature, humans seem to have an innate connection to it.

From Nautilus

For all the vulgar jokes we collectively enjoy, there's a cultural disconnect between sexual humor and actual eroticism.

From The Daily Beast

She alleges that he and twenty-or-so named colleagues collectively abused “alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, Special-K, heroin.”

From The Daily Beast

But high-ranking Democrats collectively need to perform the following exercise.

From The Daily Beast

There are 17 processes herein, which collectively take four years for a craftsman to master.

From The Daily Beast

And yet, collectively our culture is still repressed when it comes to the subject of sex.

From The Daily Beast

Personally, the English do not attract nor shine; but collectively they are a race to make their mark on the destinies of mankind.

From Project Gutenberg

Collectively, Christians can give diffusion to it with an efficiency vastly beyond the sum of all their insulated efforts.

From Project Gutenberg

These, called collectively crepundia, were strung together and worn around the neck and over the breast (Fig. 17).

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the items of this evidence are very trivial, but taken collectively they have considerable force.

From Project Gutenberg

We marked our claim upon Toryism even in the colour of our wrapper, and spoke of ourselves collectively as the Blue Weeklies.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• accordingly
• cooperatively
• in tandem
• mutually
• simultaneously
• together
• unitedly