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collection
Noun
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A collection is a group of things of the same type. They are usually special in some way.
He has one of the biggest collections of paintings by Van Gogh.
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If you take a collection, you ask many people for money, for a particular reason.
The school took a collection for new books.
waste
Verb
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To use something for no reason, or for bad reasons or only little reasons, and after it is used no one can use it again.
He wasted the food by making it dirty.
waste
Noun
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Things that are not useful; things that people want to take out of their house.