COLLECT
Definition:
- [adverb] make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
- [noun] a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
- [verb] call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
Synonyms: take in
- [verb] assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
Synonyms: gather, garner, pull together
- [verb] get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
Synonyms: pull in
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: pick up, gather up, call for
- [adjective] payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
Synonyms: cod
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Related Words:
- run up
- corral
- collect, pull in
- scrape, scrape up, come up
- lump, chunk
- bale
- catch
- fund
- fund
- farm
- raise
- mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon
- rake
- reap, harvest, glean
- hive
- salvage, scavenge
- muster, rally, summon, come up, muster up
- round up
- pick, pluck, cull
- nut
- snail
- birdnest, bird-nest
- nest
- oyster
- sponge
- pearl
- clam
- shock
- pile up, heap up, stack up
- archive, file away
- beat up, drum up, rally
