• a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
• assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
• get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
• call for and obtain payment of; "we Collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he Collected the rent"
• 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"
• 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"
• payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a Collect call"; "the letter came Collect"; "a COD parcel"
• make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call Collect"; "send a package Collect"

'Collect' in other languages