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UK
/kəlˈɛkʃən/
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[ US /kəˈɫɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
- the act of gathering something together
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request for a sum of money
an appeal to raise money for starving children - a publication containing a variety of works
How To Use collection In A Sentence
- A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
- Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- We will review this after about six months and see if abstaining from interviews has in any way helped box office collections.
- Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
- Copies of this schedule should be constructed in such a fashion that easy access be afforded the data collection process.
- Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
- The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Rubbish advice The erratic bin collections over the past few weeks have left me struggling to cope with all our household rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
- Congress houses most of its collections in three buildings on Capitol Hill.