Collective vs Organization - What's the difference?
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Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
(obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly'', ''army'', ''jury , etc.
Tending to collect; forming a collection.
* Young
Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
A farm owned by a collection of people.
(especially, in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
(grammar) A collective noun or name.
(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
* 2005 , Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985 (page 76)
(uncountable) The quality of being organized.
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, title= (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
(countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
As nouns the difference between collective and organization
is that collective is a farm owned by a collection of people while organization is (uncountable) the quality of being organized.As an adjective collective
is formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.collective
English
Adjective
(-)- critical and collective reason
- Local is his throne to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.
Derived terms
* collectiveness * collectivelyNoun
(en noun)- There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.
Derived terms
* collectivize * collective nounSee also
* collective fruit (Botany), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit.References
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(wikipedia organization)Alternative forms
* organisationNoun
The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}