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col|lec|tion ◆◆◇ /kəle kʃ ^ə n/ (collections )

1 N‑COUNT A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time. □ [+ of ] The Art Gallery of Ontario has the world's largest collection of sculptures by Henry Moore. □  He made the mistake of leaving his valuable record collection with a former girlfriend.

2 N‑COUNT A collection of stories, poems, or articles is a number of them published in one book. □ [+ of ] The institute has assembled a collection of essays from foreign affairs experts.

3 N‑COUNT A collection of things is a group of things. □ [+ of ] Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.

4 N‑COUNT A fashion designer's new collection consists of the new clothes they have designed for the next season.

5 N‑UNCOUNT Collection is the act of collecting something from a place or from people. □  Money can be sent to any one of 22,000 agents worldwide for collection. □ [+ of ] …computer systems to speed up collection of information.

6 N‑COUNT If you organize a collection for charity, you collect money from people to give to charity. □ [+ for ] I asked my headmaster if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.

7 N‑COUNT A collection is money that is given by people in church during some Christian services.

col|le c|tion box (collection boxes ) N‑COUNT A collection box is a box or tin that is used to collect money for charity. [AM ]

col|lec|tive ◆◇◇ /kəle kt I v/ (collectives )

1 ADJ [ADJ n] Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people. □  It was a collective decision. □  The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief. ●  col|lec|tive|ly ADV □  The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.

2 ADJ [ADJ n] 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. ●  col|lec|tive|ly ADV [ADV with v] □  In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.

3 ADJ [ADJ n] 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. ●  col|lec|tive|ly ADV [ADV with v] □  …other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).

4 N‑COUNT 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. [BUSINESS ] □  He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.

col|le c|tive ba r|gain|ing N‑UNCOUNT When a trade union engages in collective bargaining , it has talks with an employer about its members' pay and working conditions. [BUSINESS ]

col|le c|tive nou n (collective nouns ) N‑COUNT A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.

col|le c|tive un|co n|scious N‑SING In psychology, the collective unconscious consists of the basic ideas and images that all people are believed to share because they have inherited them.

col|lec|ti|vise /kəle kt I va I z/ → see collectivize

col|lec|tiv|ism /kəle kt I v I zəm/ N‑UNCOUNT Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.