collect

collect is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses

Definitions

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

   "gather some stones"

   "pull your thoughts together"

   Synonyms: garner, gather

9. verb. get or bring together

   "accumulate evidence"

10. verb. call for and obtain payment of

    "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"

    "he collected the rent"

11. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard

12. verb. gather or collect

    "You can get the results on Monday"

    "She picked up the children at the day care center"

13. adjective. payable by the recipient on delivery

    "a collect call"

    "the letter came collect"

    Synonyms: cod

14. adverb. make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

    "call collect"

    "send a package collect"

Synonyms

garner, gather, accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, cod

Common word forms

collects, collected, collecting, collectable

Words from these letters

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