1. 集體的;共同的
    Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.

    e.g. It was a collective decision...
           這是集體的決定。
    e.g. The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
           該國(guó)的政界人士均已松了口氣。

2. 總的;集合的
    A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has.

    e.g. Their collective volume wasn't very large.
           他們的總量不是太大。

3. 集合的;總括的
    The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.

    e.g. Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
           社會(huì)科學(xué)是一個(gè)統(tǒng)稱，涵蓋一系列的獨(dú)立學(xué)科。

4. 集體企業(yè);合作農(nóng)場(chǎng)
    A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits.

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    e.g. He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
           他會(huì)確保自己參與集體企業(yè)的各項(xiàng)決策。