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collect English

Meaning collect meaning

What does collect mean?
Definitions in simple English

collect Verb

— If you collect some things, you bring them together as a group. The study collected data from 562 mothers in the hospital. The rain collected in a pool.

collect

— verb (= roll up, accumulate, amass) get or gather together I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis She rolled up a small fortune — verb call for and obtain payment of we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts he collected the rent — verb (= gather) assemble or get together gather some stones pull your thoughts together — verb get or bring together accumulate evidence — verb (= pick up) gather or collect You can get the results on Monday She picked up the children at the day care center They pick up our trash twice a week — adverb make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays call collect send a package collect — adjective (= cod) payable by the recipient on delivery a collect call the letter came collect a COD parcel — noun a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Synonyms collect synonyms

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collect English » English

gather assemble accumulate pick up amass compile gather up gather together pick harvest raise hoard get bring together store up pile up heap up heap garner store muster save heap together take in round up put together levy keep glean fetch convene combine take select pile group crowd concentrate add stack save up roll up receive raise funds pull in pluck mass look for get together exact

Topics collect topics

What do people use collect to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Social behavior Social activity

Come together, form a group
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Invite
Daily life Fire

Fuel
Work and occupation Agriculture Harvest

Gather wild plants
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Collect
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving
States Quantity More

Increase
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Universe, creation Animal

Animal actions
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Spy
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Poultry raising
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Beekeeping

Conjugation collect conjugation

How do you conjugate collect?

collect · verb

Examples collect examples

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Simple sentences

I collect rare coins.
Her hobby was to collect ancient coins.
Her hobby is to collect ancient coins.
Collect your things and leave.
Today, Tom was supposed to collect his children from school, but he forgot about it.
I collect watches.
Do you collect anything?
I'd like to make a collect call to Los Angeles.
How many times a week do they collect garbage in this town?
The natives collect and store rain-water to drink.
My hobby is to collect beautiful butterflies.
My hobby is to collect old toys.
I collect stamps as a hobby.
Speaking of hobbies, do you collect stamps?
They collect our garbage every Monday.
First, we will present a petition to the mayor and collect signatures.
Do you still collect stamps?
I collect postcards.
They collect our rubbish every Monday.
Collect your thoughts before you begin your work.
I collect dolls from different countries.
I collect silver tea spoons.
How many medals did the Japanese athletes collect?

Movie subtitles

I've got another bill to collect at Monsieur Paulet's, on the floor above.
Ms. Marquise, I could not collect all the money which you asked, but tomorrow the 500,000 francs will be avaible for your disposition and I take them to you as soon as possible.
They had come to collect the young maiden who had loved an evildoer. and had given her life to destroy him.
Go, Dennin, collect the instruments - we are moving!
Can't collect rent from them.
SEND REINFORCEMENTS. SEND THAT OFF COLLECT.
Then go collect your pay and get lost!
Send it collect.
Collect?
Collect.
Well, look, I gotta go collect for that last race.
Looks to me like Wynant came to collect and ran into a little trouble.
He realized that he and Julia could still collect money.
Kapteyn would measure the plates, while Gill continued ro collect new ones.
I am coming to collect the tax in the afternoon.
Oh, goodness, collect yourself!
The chief ordered to quickly collect two hundred heads of cattle from the nearest settlements.
When do I collect?
The Czar doesn't collect antiquities!
Yesterday they came to collect it.
Send the call collect.
If we split and go out one by one, we've still got a chance to collect the dough.
I gotta collect my kit.
Collect? - Yes.
Let's collect!
I collect myself.
I let you be so that I could collect my share.
We'll collect him on the way back.
Collect that dough, and fast.

News and current affairs

The higher the growth rate, the more revenues the government will collect without raising tax rates; and higher revenues enable smaller deficits.
Because it will take time to collect revenues from the regional VAT, the EU should provide financial help during the transition.
Yet it still does not routinely collect the data that it needs - trades by time and customer - to understand the actions and impact of large traders.
All that governments needed to do to ensure the division of labor was to enforce property rights, keep the peace, and collect a few taxes to pay for a limited range of public goods.
For example, we can choose how much to collect via a general income tax, a payroll tax, a consumption tax (such as a sales or value-added tax), and so on.
A general principle for an efficient tax system is to collect a given amount of revenue (corresponding in the long run to the government's spending) in a way that causes as little distortion as possible to the overall economy.
It uses Google, Facebook, Verizon, and other Internet and communications companies to collect vast amounts of digital information, no doubt including data about my emails, cellphone calls, and credit card usage.
It is hard enough to collect taxes, so how can societies possibly go back to a world where the tax office has to run after the taxpayer?
Some developing countries have introduced a far-reaching VAT refund system for consumers who collect official receipts.
The West should certainly not force Ukraine into an intense and destabilizing austerity program in a misguided attempt to collect on debt service.
They will also face few incentives to put in place a properly functioning system to collect taxes.
Speculators transfer huge amounts of money from France to high-interest-bearing local deposit accounts, collect their tax-free gains every three months, and take the no-risk plunge again.
In fact, although the central government has the authority to collect the revenues generated by existing fields, there is no law to prevent local officials from modernizing old sites and claiming that they are new.
Losses can result from excessive wages paid by the ESM Governing Council members to themselves, a dearth of energy in efforts to collect debts from countries that have received credit, or other forms of mismanagement.
SEATTLE - Very soon, it will be economically feasible to sequence human genomes and collect massive amounts of different types of health data as standard medical practice.
But on June 8, unnamed officials asked the doctors' son to collect some personal effects for his parents, including dentures, and deliver them to the authorities.
In contrast to the United States, the EU cannot send its marshals to enforce its pacts or collect debt.
Just as with flying, which most people (George Clooney's character excepted) don't particularly like, users may eagerly sign up in order to collect points.
Since India gained its independence, the government has systematically refused to collect sufficient data on the socioeconomic aspects of caste.
In the private sector, the ability to collect information about teacher-student interaction, and interaction between students and learning systems, can have a profound impact.

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