collective

共同の、集団的な

集団の全員で共有する、または全員が関わる。

やさしい英語で： Shared by or involving all the people in a group.

• It was a collective decision.
• Cleaning the beach required a collective effort.
• The tragedy remains part of our collective memory.

類義語： shared, joint, common

反対語： individual

よく使う表現： collective decision, collective effort, collective responsibility

団体の、集団的な

労働組合が組合員を代表して行動したり、協定を結んだりすることに関わる。

やさしい英語で： Involving a workers' union acting or making agreements for its members.

• The union wants a collective agreement.
• Collective bargaining helped workers secure better pay.
• Their collective action persuaded the employer to negotiate.

よく使う表現： collective bargaining, collective agreement, collective action

合計の、総体的な

個々の量や結果をすべて合わせて得られる。

やさしい英語で： Found by putting all the separate amounts or results together.

• Their collective savings paid for the trip.
• The report measures the collective output of all factories.
• Our collective results exceeded last year's total.

類義語： combined, total, aggregate

よく使う表現： collective amount, collective wealth, collective results

集められた、集合した

別々の人や物を集めて、一つの集団にした。

やさしい英語で： Made by gathering separate people or things into one group or body.

• The members form a collective body.
• Separate communities became one collective whole.
• The scattered particles gathered into a collective mass.

類義語： assembled, gathered, combined

反対語： scattered

よく使う表現： collective body, collective mass, collective whole

共同体、集団

同じ目標に向かって一緒に働く人々の集団。

やさしい英語で： A group of people who work together toward the same goal.

• She joined an artists' collective.
• The collective organizes free concerts.
• Several creative collectives share this building.

使い方： collective of people (They formed a collective of local musicians.)

類義語： group, association

よく使う表現： artists' collective, music collective, join a collective

協同組合、共同経営体

複数の人が共同で所有し、運営する事業。

やさしい英語で： A business owned and run together by a group of people.

• The farm operates as a collective.
• Workers in the collective share its profits.
• They established a collective to sell their handmade furniture.

類義語： cooperative, co-op

よく使う表現： workers' collective, farming collective, run a collective

集合名詞

人、動物、物の集団を表す言葉。

やさしい英語で： A word that names a group of people, animals, or things.

• A flock is a collective for sheep.
• The teacher asked us to list five collectives.
• This collective names a group of birds.

使い方： collective for something (What is the collective for a group of geese?)

類義語： collective noun

よく使う表現： a collective for, use a collective