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collectively

/kəˈlɛktɪvli/

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What does collectively mean?

adverb

  1. In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

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IPA pronunciation

/kəˈlɛktɪvli/

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All the loyalty and service men expect of wives, they gave, not singly to men, but collectively to one another.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
We have observed that, according to Higgins, when this Trinity was spoken of collectively, it was called after the feminine plural.
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
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While they had collectively profited by this quality of the corn-factor’s they had been made to wince individually on more than one occasion.
Thomas HardyThe Mayor of CasterbridgeProject Gutenberg ebook #143
Thus it is that the assembled gods, the pantheon as a whole, are regarded as collectively responsible for the creation of the universe.
L. W. (Leonard William) KingLegends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew TraditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2030
We shall therefore describe them collectively, as applying correctly to either of the three methods of operating we are about to show.
H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) ReeksDiseases of the Horse's FootProject Gutenberg ebook #11204