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UK
/kəlˈɛktɪvli/
]
[ US /kəˈɫɛktɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫɛktɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in conjunction with; combined
our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage
we couldn't pay for the damages with all our salaries put together
How To Use collectively In A Sentence
- In our guts lives something called a 'microbiome', which is made up of approximately 100 trillion bacteria collectively containing maybe a hundred times as much genetic information as their host.
- However, he is at pains to point out that there is no one author of the canonic interpretation of a particular building; it is developed collectively over time, the cumulative, filtered effect of many previous responses.
- Collectively, the papers make a significant contribution to our understanding of science and cognition.
- In reticulate evolution, there is no unique notion of genealogical descent: genetic content can be distributed collectively. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
- She has a staff of four who collectively earn almost $200 000.
- The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
- But collectively their mass migration is ruining the country's development prospects.
- We collectively felt that we wanted it to stand alongside all the other Beatles albums, and hopefully, we've achieved that.
- But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still collectively holding our tongues -- as previous generations did about racism -- that lies at the root of many of the problems that vex us today. Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other