collectives
- 1Plural of collective.
Across the region, agricultural collectives pooled their land and labor to boost output.
Artist collectives organized the festival without any corporate sponsorship.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, and always a noun: the adjective collective, as in collective effort, never takes an ending. One plural covers every noun meaning: jointly owned or state-managed farms, groups gathered around a cause, the grammarian's collective nouns, even a helicopter's ascent control. The neighboring words show which is meant: farming collectives, artist collectives.
collectives is a form of collective
collective, noun: A group of people united by and working toward a particular cause or interest. Full entry
- Forms
- collectivecollectives plural
- Spelling
- collective → collectives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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