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Dictionary: col·lec·tion   (kə-lĕk'shən) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act or process of collecting.
  2. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
  3. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer: promoted the summer collection in the store window.
  4. An accumulation; a deposit: a collection of dust on the piano.
    1. A collecting of money, as in church.
    2. The sum so collected.

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Banking Dictionary: Collection
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1. Presentment of checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments to the point of origin, and receiving payment from the paying bank. The term covers Cash Items such as checks and drafts, and also noncash items, including acceptances, bonds, and notes, which are referred to as Collection Items. Cash items receive immediate credit collection items are credited to the owner's account only when paid.

2. Handling of past-due accounts by specialists, who attempt to get a promise to pay from the delinquent borrower and ultimately recover all or part of the debt. See also Skip Trace.

Thesaurus: collection
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noun

  1. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, band, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch, group, knot, lot, party, set. See group.
  2. A quantity accumulated: accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, congeries, cumulation, gathering, mass. See collect/distribute.

Word Tutor: collection
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: The result of gathering or amassing.

pronunciation Heidi had a great collection of baseball cards.

Wikipedia: Collection
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Collection or Collections may refer to:

Albums

Other

  • Collection agency, a business that pursues payments on debts
  • Generated collection, a scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval around the chromatic circle
  • Collection class in object-oriented programming
  • In mathematics, a set, class, family, or multiset; for brevity in proofs the term is often used loosely to make general statements, to avoid specifying which (if any) of these formal objects is meant.
  • The donation money collected from a church congregation during a service, normally by means of a collection plate
  • A type of anthology consisting of works by a single author
  • Collections or collective nouns for groups of animals are found in the article on List of animal names.

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Translations: Collection
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - indsamling, samling, bunke, opkrævning, tømning, afhentning, eksamen ved semesterafslutning

Nederlands (Dutch)
verzameling, collectie, verzamelbundel, collecte, inzameling, buslichting, ophoping, inning

Français (French)
n. - collection, recueil, rassemblement, ramassage, recouvrement, perception (des impôts), encaissement, levée (des lettres), amas, assemblage, assemblée, quête, collecte

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sammlung, Kollektion, Kassierung, Einkassierung, Abholung, Leerung des Briefkastens

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συλλογή, είσπραξη, παραλαβή, έρανος, συνάθροιση, συγκέντρωση, σόδιασμα, κολεξιόν, συλλογή παρουσιαζόμενων δημιουργιών σχεδιαστή (γυναικείων) ενδυμάτων

Italiano (Italian)
collezione, riscossione, raccolta, colletta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - coleção (f), compilação (f), acúmulo (m), cobrança (f)

Русский (Russian)
коллекция, собрание, пожертвования

Español (Spanish)
n. - acumulación, montón, cobranza, cobro, recaudación, colección, compilación, colecta, cuestación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - samlande, insamling, kollekt, inkassering, samling

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
收藏, 搜集品, 征收

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 收藏, 搜集品, 徵收

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 수집 , 수집물, 기부금, 수금

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 収集, 採集, 収集物, 集合, 徴収, 集金, 寄付金, 献金, 堆積

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مجموعه, تجمع, العطاء في كنيسه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גבייה, אוסף, מילקט, ערימה‬


 
 

 

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