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Collective good - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Coefficient, Collaborative, Collectivist, Collectivistic, Common, Communal, Communalist, Communist

Collective goods (or social goods) are defined as public goods that could be delivered as private goods, but are delivered instead by the government for various reasons (usually social policy) and financed from public funds like taxes.

In a more broad definition, the term "collective good" describes all that is good for all people in a given community.

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Example Usage of Collective

anisenafp: The Collective (politicians, administrators & citizens) indifference & failure to learn from historical blunders is telling (or defining?)!
naofumiyoshida: Collective bargaining is going on...
jothekendall: @weeclaire Have you seen em live? Saw them at ATP and they were mental. They break all of Animal Collective's ravey crayons any day
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