collective enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsofcollectiveandenterprise

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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk
/kəˈlek.tɪv/
us
/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/
us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofcollectiveandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcollective enterprise

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The moral capital ideal was thus an organic mix of dynamism, modernity, gesellschaft-values, paternalism,collectiveenterpriseand humanity.
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All who contribute to the norms, the practices, and the institutions of clinical medicine are real or potential members of acollectiveenterprise.
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As we would expect in acollectiveenterprise, some authors veer towards generalisation, for example by confining themselves to the familiar territory of enlightened absolutism.
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Thus, the institutionalized character of these literary objectivations confers upon them the significance of a contribution to an always open-ended, continously progressingcollectiveenterprise.
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We envision acollectiveenterpriseaimed at discovering which conditions promote, and which constrain, full expression of co-regulated social communication in primates and other animals.
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The study of the county community was acollectiveenterprise, and results could be combined to produce an overall picture.
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Drama in any form is acollectiveenterprise.
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Distancing themselves from the individualism of the liberal assimilationist model, the authors present migration as acollectiveenterpriseand call attention to the unique experiences and expectations of migrant women.
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Irrigation policy ideas such as kudimaramat tradition and self-governing local institutions are socially constructed, they are social facts, part of policy-making as acollectiveenterpriseadvancing institutional interests.
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Strategies of power coexist with generosity and intellectual pleasure; the staging of the self is intertwined with the affirmation of acollectiveenterprisein the advancement of learning.
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We have a talent and tradition for co-operation andcollectiveenterprise.
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If now it has turned tocollectiveenterpriseit is only because it has been driven there.
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I believe that the support must be not only for individual enterprise but forcollectiveenterprise.
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It is sometimes put quite differently as though the argument were between private enterprise andcollectiveenterprise.
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We have been supplying the defects of the system with forms ofcollectiveenterprisewith voluntary enterprise, which are necessary to complement it.
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We have to pin our hopes on making private enterprise and various forms ofcollectiveenterprisework effectively.
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Particularly is such a concept ofcollectiveenterpriseand pride in doing things together necessary if we want to create cities which are not only comfortable but beautiful.
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Even the people who are employed by state and collective enterprises work much harder and longer hours as pay is linked to performance and output.
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Universitas refers to a political order conceived as a people consecrated to acollectiveenterprise.
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Among the workers identified in our data, 88.4 per cent were employed in these organizations in 1990, while another 5.3 per cent worked in small state-owned and collective enterprises.
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