collectively

American  

[kuh-lek-tiv-lee] / kəˈlɛk tɪv li /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• noncollectively
  adverb
• uncollectively
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of collectively

collective ( def. ) + -ly

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

collectively

Customers will need to buy Macs collectively packing at least 1 terabyte of memory to run the new model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But as service requests from large customers tripled to 18,000 megawatts, the company started to study potential projects in clusters to see how they would collectively affect the grid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

If Norris had pulled off the move, it would have meant one more point for him and one fewer for Piastri, but for the team collectively it would have made no difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“We all collectively lack the imagination to wonder what the jobs of the future will be,” Reid said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Despite these crippling difficulties, the biologists assembled facts that collectively paint a picture of almost unparalleled wildlife destruction — destruction that became obvious as soon as the program got under way.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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Related Words

• accordingly
• cooperatively
• in tandem
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• together
• unitedly

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