collect

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

John Henry collects stamps.

[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

The rain collected in puddles.

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.