collective.

1. Belonging to or undertaken by a group rather than one individual.

2. A group whose members share responsibility for their work or decisions.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• collective responsibility
• collective action

On the page

The report treats safety as a collective responsibility.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative.. Noun singular collective; plural collectives. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.