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colectivo

colectivo noun: a kind of bus or shared taxi in South America.

Noun

colectivo (plural colectivos)

  1. A kind of bus or shared taxi in South America.
  2. (Venezuelan politics) A government-backed far-left paramilitary group in Venezuela

Forms of colectivo

pluralcolectivos

Origin of colectivo

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish colectivo. In reference to shared taxis, clipping of taxi colectivo. Doublet of collective.

Questions about colectivo

What does colectivo mean?
Colectivo means a kind of bus or shared taxi in South America.
What part of speech is colectivo?
Colectivo is a noun.
What is the plural of colectivo?
The plural of colectivo is colectivos.

Words near colectivo in the dictionary

  1. Colebrook
  2. Colebrooke
  3. Colebrookes
  4. colecalciferol
  5. colecannon
  6. colectivo
  7. colectivos
  8. colectomies
  9. colectomy
  10. colecturer
  11. colecturers

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