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collection
  1. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  2. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  3. The activity of collecting.
  4. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
  5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  6. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  7. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  8. (plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “Jefe had a collection of pinatas in the storeroom for El Guapo, each of them filled with little surprises.”
      “A collection of actors, musicians, and artists staged a tribute to the veteran film-maker.”
      “Lahiri's debut collection of nine stories won the Pulitzer Prize shortly after it was published in 1999.”
collector
  1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  2. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  3. (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  4. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  6. a major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
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  8. Examples:
    1. “George Salting found his vocation as a professional collector of art, inspired by the beautiful objects he had studied in Rome.”
      “You are continually harassed by a debt collector who calls you at all hours of the day and night. You wrote a letter requesting the debt collector to stop contacting you, but your letter was ignored.”
      “As a collector his interests include European silver, gold snuffboxes, enameled portrait miniatures, and Italian mosaics.”
collective
  1. A farm owned by a collection of people.
  2. (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
  3. (grammar) A collective noun or name.
  4. (by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A collective is a cooperative association of farmers who work land owned by the state but who own most of their own farm implements.”
collectivism
  1. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively
  2. The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Many of the wartime controls and the apparatus of state collectivism disappeared as if they had never been.”
      “Where is the new thinking on questions of individualism, collectivism, consumerism, choice and equity?”
      “It is possible that individualism and collectivism operate very differently at the individual level than at the cultural level.”
collectivization
  1. The act of collectivizing
  2. (especially in communist states) The process of forcibly abolishing privately-owned farmland organizing all its workers into large, publicly-owned collectives.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The coercive land collectivization in the 1950s was the topic of Bulgarian films by Docho Bodzhakov and Evgueny Mikhailov.”
      “In the 1930s, the Soviet government began policies of collectivization, education for all, and assimilation.”
      “More generally, there are several general contemporary trends towards collectivization of security.”
collectivity
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being collective
  2. (countable) A body of people considered as a whole
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “In the work context, this covers the worker as an individual or as a member of a collectivity.”
      “I'd be inclined to say that capitalists aren't so good at being clever as a collectivity, because of the incessant competition between them.”
      “By such means insecure white people were given the familistic support of a clearly, if artificially created collectivity.”
collect
  1. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
collecting
collectorship
  1. The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We cannot insist on a mission for him and the collectorship for a barnburner.”
      “Royall, who had written FDR previously for employment and who now had the endorsement of the Harlem Political Union for the collectorship.”
      “There are a number of artists who historically reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s, and that kind of mid-20th century art is being rediscovered by a younger collectorship.”
collectionitis
collectivisation
  1. Alternative spelling of collectivization
  2. Examples:
    1. “The beginning of forced collectivisation in the early 1930s was carried through with unprecedented brutality and resulted in unimaginable hardships for the countryside.”
      “By the time of the First Five-Year Plan and collectivisation, when the Stalinist bureaucracy was consolidated as a class, there was little social provision for childcare.”
      “Mao's government carried out mass executions of landowners, instituted collectivisation and implemented the Laogai camp system.”
collectability
  1. Alternative spelling of collectibility
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this way, viewers decide which works to buy only on the basis of taste rather than the artists' fame or their collectability.”
      “In addition, each artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, ensuring its collectability.”
      “Whitaker believes that, although digital art is in its infancy, it will have a tremendous impact on the publishing arena and the collectability of art.”
collectiveness
  1. The state or quality of being collective.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's time to hook into that collectiveness that is humanity and be a part of it.”
      “What stands us out form other teams in Europe is the collectiveness and team spirit shown by all players.”
      “The collectiveness of cell movement was characterized by statistical analysis.”
collectible
collectable
  1. Anything that someone might want to collect.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She had an impressive collection of dolls, with each one being a unique collectable.”
collectedness
  1. The state or quality of being collected.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I felt a calmness and collectedness I hadn't experienced in years after my little rendezvous with Tim over coffee and apple pie.”
      “In our interview, she was the very picture of collectedness and confidence, but at one point the pressure did get to her.”
      “Normally I'm alright with exams, and the guy sitting to my right during last year's history mods proclaimed me to be the essence of calm and collectedness.”
collectibility
  1. The quality of being collectible.
collectomania
  1. An obsessive desire to collect things.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage.”
collecter
  1. Alternative form of collector
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ils ont egalement continue a collecter les signatures pour le retrait de la confiance au chef de l'Etat.”
collectivist
collections
  1. plural of collection
  2. (accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.
  3. (accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The keeper of special collections there, Richard Ovenden, has been striving mightily to raise the necessary millions.”
      “I believe we need to recognise that some of the collections in Auckland are of national importance and value to the whole nation.”
      “For information resources, another column looked at collections of ready-reference sources.”
collectivisations
  1. plural of collectivisation
collectivizations
collectorships
  1. plural of collectorship
collectivists
collectivisms
collectivities
  1. plural of collectivity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Liberalism and republicanism gave a political cast, invoking collectivities of bounded, mapped extent, and ruled by popular, no longer divine, consent.”
      “She urges academic unionists to move away from place-based approaches to organizing and embrace new ways of creating cyber-communities and worker collectivities.”
      “The regions, departments and communes are all known as territorial collectivities, meaning they possess local assemblies as well as an executive.”
collectables
  1. plural of collectable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unique collectables such as hockey and dinosaur coins are for sale in the boutique.”
      “The burglars escaped with a hoard of limited edition bone china, porcelain and pottery collectables leaving behind only muddy footprints.”
      “You also receive a certificate of authentication that adds additional value to these collectables.”
collectibles
  1. plural of collectible
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are people from all over the world buying, selling, and trading collectibles and antiques on eBay.”
      “The astonishing collection of antiques, bygones and collectibles of Lincolnshire artist is expected to attract hundreds of fans.”
      “Add a simple detail, such as a picture rail or shelf along one wall, to display framed prints or small collectibles like perfume bottles.”
collectings
collectives
  1. plural of collective
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He flew there, perorated on regional television and at work collectives, and forced the authorities to back down.”
      “Most collectives meet their expenses by selling their surplus pot to dispensaries or directly to other patients.”
      “It was quite a mythical fusion of local bands and collectives getting together and being creative.”
collecters
  1. plural of collecter
collectors
  1. plural of collector
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Refuse collectors in Coventry staged an unofficial walkout on Wednesday of last week.”
      “This is in no way intended as a slur on the hard-working refuse collectors or recycling operatives in this area.”
      “It is an invaluable guide for collectors and a key resource for sound recording archivists.”
collects
  1. plural of collect
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