The phrase "collective amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a total sum that is gathered from multiple sources or individuals.
Example: "The collective amount raised for the charity exceeded our expectations, reaching over $50,000."
Alternatives: "total sum" or "aggregate total."
Today, the collective amount of money that Wall Street banks are pumping into Internet start-ups, on top of the surging cash piles from venture capital groups, hedge funds and private equity, is a major concern for some investors.
But no collective amount of such reminiscences is enough to outweigh our immense failure in delivering to the Iraqi people what we promised, compounded by what may be the UK's greatest crime: having little if nothing to do with rebuilding the country it helped dismember.
Considering the collective amount of time poured into this project, it's starting to look like a feature-complete Android TouchPad is going to materialize sooner rather than later.
Opensecrets.org codes individual contributions based on occupations to determine the collective amount employees in those industries contribute to campaigns.
His detractors, however, said his "collective" amounted to a cult.
A number of immunoassays have been designed to measure uPAR and the collective amounts of all uPAR forms measured by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in tumor lysates or blood correlate to prognosis in several forms of cancer.
In other cases, the punishment associated with a morally blameworthy collective may amount to eradicating the group altogether or to forcing it to give up important aspects of itself.
Their language was so similar that the collective reaction amounted to one big inside-the-Beltway echo chamber.
This lumbers Westminster with the lion's share of the repairs tab, now likely to tip £3m, while leaseholders' collective contribution amounts to less than £10,000.
South Koreans became hooked on plastic so dizzyingly fast that by 2003 they owned on average four credit cards each and their collective debts amounted to about $100 billion.
Their collective cargo amounted to more than 280 tons of hashish valued at 2.8 billion euros, or about $3.2 billion — roughly half of what was seized in all of continental Europe last year, according to the European Union's Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
