See Also: Collection(money)
COLLECTION(finance)
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collection box(dictionary)
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Collection(law)
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Documentary Collection(money)

collection (iou)



collection noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin collectio(n-), from collect-: see COLLECT verb, -ION.]
The action or an act of collecting or gathering together. LME.
L. MacNeice A red letter-box fastened to a telegraph polefour collections a week. A. Thwaite Parcelling up the garbage for Collection.
b. The action or an act of collecting taxes, or money for a definite purpose (e.g. in church or at a meeting); money so collected. L15.
D. H. Lawrence The collection arrived with the last hymn.
A summary, an abstract. LME-E18.
A group of things collected or gathered together, e.g. literary items, specimens, works of art, or fashionable clothes. LME.
R. G. Collingwood A new collection of all the Roman inscriptions..in Britain. P. Roth We have an excellent classical record collection.
b. An accumulation of material. L17.
The district under the jurisdiction of a collector of taxes or customs. L15.
The action of inferring; an inference. E16-E18.
In pl. A college examination held at the beginning or end of each term at Oxford (hence occas. elsewhere). L18.