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Definition of Collect

Collect

  1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
  2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
  3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
  4. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
  5. To infer; to conclude.
  6. A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

Collect Quotations

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt Romney

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack Obama

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore
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Collect Translations

collect in Afrikaans is versamel, bymekaarbring
collect in Danish is samle
collect in Dutch is inzamelen, innen, collecteren
collect in French is recueillir, recuellir, recueillez, encaisser
collect in German is zusammenfassen, zusammenfassen, sammeln
collect in Italian is incassare, raccogliere, ritirare
collect in Latin is compello, lego
collect in Portuguese is colete, colher
collect in Spanish is cobrar, coleccionar, cobrar
collect in Swedish is indriva, inkassera, samla, samla, ansamla, insamla

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