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  • noun Plural form of collect.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collect.

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Examples

  • Essentially, this title collects the contents of the Dennis McMillan limited edition, Everybody's Metamorphosis, long out of print and very pricey, and also includes seven stories never previously published.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Essentially, this title collects the contents of the Dennis McMillan limited edition, Everybody's Metamorphosis, long out of print and very pricey, and also includes seven stories never previously published.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • If Citizens United moots the Supreme Court ruling (as applied to Citizens United) by wasting every penny it collects from the gullible on a doomed trademark battle, I will enjoy my popcorn.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Citizens United to stop the Citizens [who are] United Against Citizens United 2010

  • Wen is someone going to "out" Baucus and all the money he collects from the insurance and pharmaceutical companies???

    What's in Baucus' health care proposal? 2009

  • Roughly 45 percent of all the fiber the company collects is used in its own manufacturing mills to create new products.

    Smurfit-Stone Recycling Increases 2008

  • Roughly 45 percent of all the fiber the company collects is used in its own manufacturing mills to create new products.

    19 posts from February 2008 2008

  • The courts say that data collection that credit card companies, retailers, and tech companies like “Do No Evil” Google collects is totally legal while it is the consumer is almost completely responsible for the repercussions of identity theft and other frauds carried out by corporate weakness in data management and security.

    As Ask Erases Little, Google and Others Keep Writing About You - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Another thing that I really like about the film is that the guy forgotten his name collects all these abandoned photos from under the photobooths and gives them a home.

    Abandoned photos 2008

  • Another thing that I really like about the film is that the guy forgotten his name collects all these abandoned photos from under the photobooths and gives them a home.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The advantages are that the rent the property collects is not income to you, it is income to the IRA - think of it as a dividend payment each month.

    Buying in Mexico from self-directed IRA LLC 2005

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