The state or quality of being collective.

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. / Multiple related objects associated as a group. / The activity of collecting. / (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.

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.

plural of collection / (accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due. / (accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

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.

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

Anything that someone might want to collect.

Suitable for collecting.

plural of collect

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collect