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[ UK /kəlˈɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  2. the act of gathering something together
  3. request for a sum of money
    an appeal to raise money for starving children
  4. 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.
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