They collectively decided to recognize the changed situation.
他们集体决定承认形势已经发生改变。
The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
内阁集体对政策负责。
2ADJ [ADJ n]总的;集合的 A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has. 总的;集合的
In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
1968年,各州在这上面总共花费了20亿美元。
3ADJ [ADJ n]集合的;总括的 The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them. 集合的;总括的
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
社会科学是一个统称,涵盖一系列的独立学科。
collectively
...other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).
其他类型的细胞(统称为白细胞)
4N-COUNT 集体企业;合作农场 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. 集体企业;合作农场 [business]
He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.