verb

 

bring together to get things from different places and bring them together

Police collected a good deal of information during the investigation.

 

keep to get and keep things of one type such as stamps or coins as a hobby

She collects dolls.

 

go to get to go to a place and bring someone or something away from it

She collects Anna from school at three o'clock.

 

money to ask people to give you money for something, for example a charity (= organization that helps people)

I'm collecting on behalf of Oxfam.

 

receive to receive money that you are owed

You can begin to collect a pension at age 62.

 

come together to come together in a single place

Journalists collected outside the palace.

 

adv,adj

 

When you telephone collect or make a collect telephone call, the person you telephone pays for the call.

She called me collect.