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   collection

   /kəˈlɛkʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action or process of collecting someone or something: "the collection of data"
   • ▪ a regular removal of mail for dispatch or of refuse for disposal: "withdrawal of the Sunday collections"
   • ▪ an instance of collecting money in a church service or for a charity: "a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund" Similar donationscontributionsgiftssubscription(s)almsinformal:whip-round
   • ▪ a sum of money raised during a church or charity collection. Similar offeringoffertorytithe
   • 2. a group of things or people: "a rambling collection of houses" Similar groupcrowdbodycompanytroupeassemblyassemblagegatheringthrongknotclusterhuddlemultitudebevypartynumberbandhordepackdroveflockswarmstreammobinformal:gangloadcrewgaggle
   • ▪ a group of accumulated items of a particular kind: "a record collection" Similar hoardpileheapstackgatheringstockstorestockpileaccumulationmassbuild-upreservesupplybankpoolfundminereservoirconglomerationcumulationaccrualaggregationaccretionagglomerateagglomerationrare:amassmentsetseriesarrayassortment
   • ▪ a book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc.: "a collection of essays" Similar anthologyselectioncompendiumtreasurycompilationmiscellanymiscellaneapot-pourricollected worksarchaic:garlandrare:analectscollectaneaanaflorilegiumspicilege
   • ▪ a range of new clothes produced by a fashion house: "a preview of their autumn collection"
   • 3. college examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University. British

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin collectio(n-), from colligere ‘gather together’ (see collect1).

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