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A group noun for people who'd rather share credit than admit who did the actual work.
means An adjective or noun describing things done, owned, or experienced by a group as a whole rather than by individuals separately.
from From Latin collectivus, built on collectus, the past participle of colligere — 'to gather together' (com- 'together' + legere 'to gather, choose'). That same legere also gives us 'lecture' and 'elect,' so collective shares ancestry with words about picking things out — ironic for a term that exists to avoid pointing at any one person.
- etymology
- from Latin collectivus, meaning gathered together
- economics
- owns means of production jointly, arguments individually
- linguistics
- singular noun, perpetually plural in practice
- governance
- everyone decides, someone still books the venue