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• (n) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
• (r) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
• (s) payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
• (v) get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man''s unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
• (v) call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
• (v) assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
• (v) get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
• (v) gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"

collect Synonyms

• accumulate
• amass
• call for
• cod
• collect
• compile
• garner
• gather
• gather up
• hoard
• pick up
• pile up
• pull in
• pull together
• roll up
• take in