Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
It was a collective decision.
这是集体的决定。
A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has.
Their collective volume wasn't very large.
他们总体的数量不太大。
The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
社会科学是一个总称,涵盖一系列独立学科。
collectives
A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people.
cooperative
He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
他要确保他在参与集体企业的所有决策。