Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. / Tending to collect; forming a collection. / Having plurality of origin or authority.

A farm owned by a collection of people. / (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community. / (grammar) A collective noun or name.

In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

(transitive) To gather together; amass. / (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

With payment due from the recipient.

(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

Worthy or suitable for collecting on historical/financial grounds, or for meeting a personal aesthetic. / Rightfully subject to payment. / That is likely to be paid.

An object which someone might want to collect.

(not comparable) Gathered together. / Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.