The difference between Collective and Individual
When used as nouns, collective means a farm owned by a collection of people, whereas individual means a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
When used as adjectives, collective means formed by gathering or collecting, whereas individual means relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
check bellow for the other definitions of Collective and Individual
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Collective as an adjective:
formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated
Examples:
"the collective body of a nation"
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Collective as an adjective:
tending to collect; forming a collection
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Collective as an adjective:
having plurality of origin or authority
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Collective as an adjective (grammar):
expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form
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Collective as an adjective (obsolete):
deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
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Collective as a noun:
a farm owned by a collection of people
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Collective as a noun (especially, in communist countries):
one of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
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Collective as a noun (grammar):
a collective noun or name
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Collective as a noun (by extension):
a group dedicated to a particular cause or interest
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Individual as a noun:
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
Examples:
"He is an unusual individual."
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Individual as a noun (legal):
A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
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Individual as a noun:
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
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Individual as a noun (statistics):
An element belonging to a population.
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Individual as an adjective:
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
Examples:
"As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one."
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Individual as an adjective:
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Examples:
"'individual personal pension; individual cream cakes"
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Individual as an adjective:
Not divisible without losing its identity.