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 Translation for 'collective term' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a collective term | collective terms
mál.
safnheiti {hv}
collective term
Partial Matches
sameiginlegur {adj}collective
kommúna {kv}collective
sambýli {hv}collective
unverified samþörf {kv}collective
unverified
sálfræði
kynslóðadulvitund {kv}
collective unconsciousness
sameiginleg ábyrgð {kv}collective responsibility
atv.hagkerfi
kjarasamningur {k}
collective agreement
unverified
hern.
varnarsáttmáli {k}
collective security
unverified
hagkerfi
samneysla {kv}
collective consumption
landbún.
fleirbýli {hv} [búskapur margra á jörð]
collective farm
unverified sameiginleg aðgerð {kv}collective action
unverified heildarskráning {kv} nokkurra smærri einingacollective cataloguing
mál.
safnheiti {hv}
collective noun
samábyrgð {kv}collective responsibility
unverified
eðlisfr.
samlíkan {hv}
collective model
sameiginlegt val {hv}collective choice
unverified samval {hv}collective choice
samstillt átak {hv}collective action
unverified
sálfræði
kynslóðadulvitund {kv}
collective unconscious
list
samsýning {kv}
collective exhibition
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Usage Examples English
  • The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
  • Fauna is a collective term for animal life.
  • The semiconductor is a collective term for a series of devices.
  • "Kugyō" (...) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.
  • The Wildwoods is used as a collective term to describe four communities on the island with the name Wildwood attached to them: North Wildwood, West Wildwood, Wildwood, and Wildwood Crest.

  • One English name that did persist was the "Narrow Seas", a collective term for the channel and North Sea.
  • The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones".
  • Statement: 'Dietary fibre' has been used as a collective term for a complex mixture of substances with different chemical and physical properties which exert different types of physiological effects.
  • Instrumentation a collective term for measuring instruments that are used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities.
  • Although the Berbers would later expel the Arabs from the Maghreb and form temporarily independent states, that effort failed to dislodge the usage of the collective term.

  • The word "troll" may have been used by pagan Norse settlers in Orkney and Shetland as a collective term for supernatural beings who should be respected and avoided rather than worshipped.
  • Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist and theologically conservative branches of contemporary Judaism.
  • Six Dynasties is a collective term for six Chinese dynasties mentioned above which all maintained national capitals at Jiankang.
  • In many beetles and in the chalcidoid wasps, the apical flagellomeres form a club shape, and the collective term for the segments between the club and the antennal base is the funicle; traditionally in describing beetle anatomy, the term "funicle" refers to the segments between the club and the .
  • "North American English" is a collective term for the dialects of the United States and Canada; it does not include the varieties of Caribbean English spoken in the West Indies.

  • The term originated as the collective term for products of which a maker or seller is termed a hosier; and those products are also known generically as hose.
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