- collective
- 1520, from the source of collect (q.v.). As a shortened form of collective farm (in the USSR) it dates from 1925. Collective bargaining coined 1891 by Beatrice Webb; defined in U.S. 1935 by the Wagner Act; collective farm first attested 1919 in translations of Lenin; collective noun is recorded from 1520; collective security first attested 1934 in speech of Winston Churchill.