"collective sum" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use collective sum when you want to talk about the total of something reached by groups of people working together. For example: "The collaborative efforts of the volunteers resulted in a collective sum of ten thousand dollars being raised for charity."
No individual is likely to have lost much, yet the collective sum is large.
So even if the typical state poll is slightly less accurate the typical national poll, the collective sum of state polls may be more worthwhile than the collective sum of national polls.
"I went down once with the collective sum of $40 million in salary and we saw $40,000 salaries working 24-hour shifts, filthy, dirty, drained, giving everything that they had, every second that they had," Valentine said.
The Hollywood Reporter was one of several sponsors on the Roitfeld movie opening, and that magazine's editorial director, Janice Min, marveled at les affairs Roitfeld and the collective sum of money being spent on the family.
State polls can be used to make inferences about where the national race stands, and our program reads the collective sum of the state-level data as implying that Mr. Obama has just slightly more than a 5-point lead in the national race right now.
He has already struck gold with his two previous companies, which he sold for a collective sum nearing $6 billion.
"It comes from a lack of security," said Mr. Rosenthal, who was born in 1948 and explained the linguistic qualms as part of the collective summing up of the past 60 years.
The concept for VECTOR at Select Fair is LEMNIVERSE -- this is a Vectorian term (see the Vectorian Glossary) encompassing the collective, interactive sum of all of the infinite universes in which each and every combinative configuration of potentialities is being played out simultaneously from beginning to end (INFINITOMENT).
In this deal, betaworks is paying Fictive Kin, a design collective, a lump sum every year to create three or four concepts.
Combinations for optimal distinction between diseased and healthy were calculated separately for the discovery and verification sets, and for the whole collective using primary sum scores.
But the stories of empowerment I heard when I visited the Sangli headquarters of the Vamp collective not only summed up some of the most important lessons we were learning in the programme about what works to support women's empowerment, they were also among the most impressive.
