1. (a.) Formed or agreed upon by a number of people, as, a collective decision\; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.

2. (a.) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

3. (a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

4. (a.) Tending to collect; forming a collection.

5. (a.) Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

6. (n.) A collective noun or name.

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