Collaboratives vs. collectives vs. cooperatives?

[Die Neue Zeit]

Generally, collaboratives and collectives are seen to be synonymous with cooperatives. However (and forgive me for this dumb question), why were alternative terms to cooperatives chosen?

Do collectives imply a tighter organizational culture than coops? Do collaboratives imply greater participation in decision-making than coops? Has the word "cooperative" lost its meaning because worker/employee coops have been downplayed in favour of consumer coops and coop education?

[Lanky Wanker]

I think it's just the context in which people use them that separates their meaning(s). My right-click dictionary gives the following definitions:

co-operative: involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal

collaborative: produced or conducted by two or more parties working together

collective: done by people acting as a group

So they kinda explain themselves. Same vegetable, different carrot.

[Prinskaj]

Well.. Pretty much what GK95 said.
But i would like to add, that A) Collectives are usually regarding housing, where a group of people live together and, usually make the rules of the household in a democratic fashion.
And B) That the terms are rather similar and there is no great distinction between them.