<B>collectibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being collectible. <BR> <I>Ex. The group said its collection index recorded a new high this month in the collectibility of overdue consumer debts (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>collectible, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that can be collected. <DD><I>noun </I> an object of popular culture that has become rare and unusual enough to be a collector's item. <BR> <I>Ex. Chopping boards and a host of other old-time kitchen utensils and accessories of wood and metal have become contemporary "collectibles" (Atlanta Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>collecting box</B> or <B>plate, =collection box.</B></DL>
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<B>collection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of bringing together; coming together. <BR> <I>Ex. The collection of these stamps took ten years. The collection of a crowd there was unexpected.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a group of things gathered from many places and belonging together. <BR> <I>Ex. a collection of proverbs or essays, a collection of minerals. Our library has a large collection of books.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>money gathered from people. <BR> <I>Ex. A church takes up a collection to help pay its expenses.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a large quantity; mass or heap; accumulation. </DL>
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<B>collection agency,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bill-collecting agency. <BR> <I>Ex. A big Los Angeles store turns unpaid accounts over to collection agencies in 90 days (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>collection box</B> or <B>plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a box, plate, basket, or bag for the collection of money, especially one passed from hand to hand in a church. </DL>
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<B>collection item,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Banking.) a deposited check, draft, or note which, unlike a cash deposit, is not credited to the account of the depositor until it is paid by the bank against which it is drawn. </DL>
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<B>collective, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or as a group; taken all together; aggregate. <BR> <I>Ex. collective revenues of the government.</I> <DD><B> 1. </B>of or derived from a number of persons taken or acting together; common. <BR> <I>Ex. the collective wisdom of Congress. The men's club made a collective decision to hold a family picnic during the summer.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>formed by collecting. <DD><B> 3. </B>owned, worked, or managed by a group. <BR> <I>Ex. collective farming.</I> (SYN) collectivized. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Botany.) resulting from the coalescence of the pistils of several flowers, as the pineapple. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a farm, factory, or other organization owned, operated, or managed by a group cooperatively. <BR> <I>Ex. There are many collectives in China.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=collective noun.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a collective body; aggregate. <BR> <I>Ex. Life is here the sum or collective of all moral and spiritual acts (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).</I> noun <B>collectiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>collective bargaining,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> negotiation about wages, hours, and other working conditions between workers organized as a group and their employer or employers. </DL>
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<B>collective behavior,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Sociology.) the behavior of a group of people reacting to a common influence or stimulus. Fads and riots are examples of collective behavior. </DL>
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<B>collective farm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a farm operated and worked by a group cooperatively. The farm, its buildings, and its machinery may be owned communally by the group, by an institution, or by the state. <BR> <I>Ex. Students will perfect their vocational training by working directly at industrial enterprises or on collective farms (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>collective fruit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fruit composed of a cluster of ripened ovaries produced by several flowers, such as the mulberry and pineapple; multiple fruit; compound fruit. </DL>
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<B>collectively, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>as a group; all together. <BR> <I>Ex. Taken collectively, the club members are a pleasant group, though there are a few discontented members.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in a singular form, but with a plural meaning. In the sentence "We caught many fish," <I>fish</I> is used collectively. </DL>
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<B>collective noun,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a noun that is singular in form but plural in meaning. <I>Crowd, people, troop,</I> and <I>herd</I> are collective nouns. </DL>
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<B>collective security,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the guarantee by a group of countries of the security of each country in the group and the maintenance of peace by collective action against a country attacking any nation in the group. <BR> <I>Ex. A great victory for the cause of peace would be the establishment of a collective security system in Europe with the participation of other states too (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>collective unconscious,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychoanalysis.) those aspects of the unconscious mind which are universal. <BR> <I>Ex. The collective unconscious ... is part of the heritage of the entire human race, and therefore a sort of common pool containing the instincts and some patterns for mental behavior (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>collectivism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a political and economic system in which the means of production of goods and services and the distribution of wealth are controlled by the people as a group or by the government, for example a system such as communism or socialism. <BR> <I>Ex. The move toward collectivism, the kolkhozes, industrialization by a five-year plan are all copied from Russian prototypes (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>collectivist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who favors or supports collectivism. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=collectivistic.</B> </DL>
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<B>collectivistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of collectivism or collectivists. <BR> <I>Ex. The collectivistic idea was especially strong among the Inca, the preliterate people of Peru (Ogburn and Nimkoff).</I> </DL>
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<B>collectivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>people collectively, especially as forming a community or state. <DD><B> 2. </B>a collective whole; aggregate. (SYN) sum, mass. <DD><B> 3. </B>collective state or quality; collectiveness. </DL>
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<B>collectivization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> establishment or regulation according to the theories of collectivism. <BR> <I>Ex. They are staking the future of their regime on a forced industrial revolution accompanied by the collectivization of agriculture (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>collectivize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-vized,</B> <B>-vizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to transfer ownership of from individuals to the state or the people collectively. <BR> <I>Ex. The effort to collectivize an economy leads to regimentation, dictatorship from above and eventually the submergence of the individual in a totalitarian state (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make collective; gather into one; combine. </DL>
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<B>collect on delivery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> payment to be collected when goods are delivered. (Abbr:) COD </DL>
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<B>collector, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who collects. <BR> <I>Ex. The stamp collector had several books which held the stamps in his collection.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing that collects. <BR> <I>Ex. Curtains are dust collectors.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person hired to collect money owed. <BR> <I>Ex. A tax collector brings in money for the government.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a device that collects electrical energy by maintaining contact between moving and stationary parts of a circuit; accumulator. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=solar collector.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The temperature that can be achieved when solar radiation is absorbed in a collector ... depends on how intensely the collector concentrates the energy (Barry Commoner).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) a literary compiler. </DL>
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<B>collector ring,</B> <B>=slip ring.</B></DL>
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<B>collectorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office of a collector. <DD><B> 2. </B>district covered by a collector. </DL>
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<B>collectors'</B> or <B>collector's item,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an object rare and unusual enough or close enough to perfection to be suitable for and prized by a collector. </DL>
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<B>colleen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Irish.) a girl. </DL>
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<B>college, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a school beyond high school that gives degrees. <BR> <I>Ex. After finishing high school, he went to college and then became a teacher.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the academic department of a university for general instruction, as distinguished from the special, professional, or graduate schools. <BR> <I>Ex. Between the first and second world wars, Columbia College in New York set the pattern for "general education" in U.S. colleges (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a school for special or professional training, for example in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, whether as part of a university or independently. <BR> <I>Ex. She went to a business college to learn to be a secretary.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a group of persons with the same duties and privileges. <BR> <I>Ex. the electoral college. Many large hospitals have a college of surgeons.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the building or group of buildings used by a college. <DD><B> 6a. </B>a separately endowed, self-governing association of scholars within a university (as at Oxford and Cambridge in England), engaged in study and the instruction of students. <DD><B> b. </B>a similar association not within a university. <DD><B> 7. </B>a secondary school (in France). <DD><B> 8. </B>a community of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service, etc. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Archaic.) a company; crowd; assemblage. <BR> <I>Ex. They rode in proud array, thick as the college of the bees in May (John Dryden).</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Archaic.) a course of study or lectures leading to a degree. <DD><B> 11. </B>(British Slang.) a prison. </DL>
