collection agency

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noun

a firm that collects unpaid bills for other firms and is usually compensated by receiving a percentage of the amount collected.

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An estimated 20 percent of Americans are currently being pursued by a collection agency for medical debt.
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The hospital also disclosed that employees at its now-shuttered collection agency were given financial incentives based on the money they recouped from patients.
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The feckless disaster relief agency had become a feckless debt collection agency.
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“We tell them, ‘You put us in touch with that collection agency,’” DePriest says.
The Perils of Borrowing Online|Gary Rivlin|October 12, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Of course James went in, and found a futurist painter wrestling with the agent of a collection agency.
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