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Type Words
Synonyms appeal, ingathering, solicitation
Type of postulation, petition, request
Has types whip-round
Type Words
Synonyms accumulation, aggregation, assemblage
Type of grouping, group
Has types batch, battery, biology, biota, block, book, botany, bottle collection, bunch, bundle, caboodle, category, central america, class, clutch, coin collection, collage, combination, congregation, content, contents, convoy, corpus, crop, cumulation, cumulus, data, deal, defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team, zoology, agglomeration, air power, ana, armamentarium, art collection, asia, assortment, aviation, backlog, stamp collection, statuary, string, subroutine library, sum, sum total, summation, tenantry, third world, tout ensemble, traffic, treasure, treasure trove, trinketry, troponomy, troponymy, universe, variety, vegetation, victoriana, wardrobe, agglomerate, ensemble, europe, exhibition, expo, exposition, extragalactic nebula, family, fauna, findings, flagging, fleet, flinders, flora, free world, gaap, galaxy, generally accepted accounting principles, gimmickry, hand, heap, herbarium, hit parade, information, job lot, judaica, jurisprudence, kludge, law, library, long suit, lot, mail, mass, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, mound, mythology, north america, nuclear club, oort cloud, pack, package, packet, pantheon, parcel, petting zoo, pharmacopoeia, pile, planting, population, post, potpourri, procession, program library, prosecution, repertoire, repertory, rogue's gallery, rule book, salmagundi, set, signage, smithereens, smorgasbord, south america
Type Words
Synonyms aggregation, assembling, collecting
Type of grouping
Has types coin collection, agglomeration, bottle collection, collation, stamp collection, conchology, philately, pickup, coin collecting, numismatics, numismatology, gather, gathering, tax collection, stamp collecting, compiling, compilation, shell collecting
Derivation collect
Type Words
Synonyms compendium
Type of publication
Has types digest, anthology, archives, compilation

Examples of collection

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A statewide data collection system must be established to include all DWI cases.
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The collection is available to Madison County residents with proof of residency.
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Idlewild Books has an extensive collection of travel and foreign language books.
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Society is a collection of teachers, parents, co-workers, partners and so forth.
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A collection of tiny skulls rests on a bookshelf in Justin Graber's Newton shop.
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The trove, apparently, is a fraction of Butel's main collection, kept in France.
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The Library of Congress is constantly adding to its Persian language collection.
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It turned out part of the track was home to a collection of antique locomotives.
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Padgett's case, built on a collection of novel legal theories, has some promise.
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More examples
  • Several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  • A publication containing a variety of works
  • Solicitation: request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
  • The act of gathering something together
  • (collect) payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
  • (collect) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
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  • An invoice or bill is a commercial document issued by a seller to the buyer, indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer. An invoice indicates the buyer must pay the seller, according to the payment terms. ...