Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.
How a car would be sent to collect him and he would be taken somewhere.
Divide the mixture evenly among the crème brûlée dishes, including any juices that collect.
In order to break the spell and bear children, they must collect four items from the mysterious woods.
When I was young, I loved to dig and find and collect fossils.
It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent.
He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts.
They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen.
That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes.
I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.
early 15c. (transitive), from Old French collecter "to collect" (late 14c.), from Latin collectus, past participle of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" (see com-) + legere "to gather" (see lecture (n.)). The intransitive sense is attested from 1794. Related: Collected; collecting. As an adjective meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with reference to telegrams.
