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Definition of Collection
Collection

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

That which is collected

A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.

That which is obtained in payment of demands.

An accumulation of any substance.

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

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Collection Quotations

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

Europe is a collection of free countries.
Douglas Feith

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Collection Translations

collection in Afrikaans is insameling, bundel, versameling
collection in Danish is samling
collection in Dutch is schare, drift, kudde, groep, hoop
collection in French is collection, recueil
collection in German is Sammlung
collection in Italian is incasso, collezkone
collection in Norwegian is samling


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