pick up: We drove to the airport the next morning to pick up Susan.
get: Go and get your daddy for me.
col|lect|able /kəle ktəb ə l/ also collectible ADJ A collectable object is one which is valued very highly by collectors because it is rare or beautiful. □ Many of these cushions have survived and are very collectible.
col|lect|ed /kəle kt I d/
1 ADJ [ADJ n] An author's collected works or letters are all their works or letters published in one book or in a set of books. □ …the collected works of Rudyard Kipling.
2 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If you say that someone is collected , you mean that they are very calm and self-controlled, especially when they are in a difficult or serious situation. □ Police say she was cool and collected during her interrogation.
3 → see also collect
col|lect|ible /kəle kt I b ə l/ → see collectable
col|lect|ing /kəle kt I ŋ/
1 ADJ [ADJ n] A collecting tin or box is one that is used to collect money for charity. [BRIT ] in AM, use collection box 2 → see also collect
col|lec|tion ◆◆◇ /kəle kʃ ə n/ (collections )
1 N‑COUNT A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time. □ [+ of ] The Art Gallery of Ontario has the world's largest collection of sculptures by Henry Moore. □ He made the mistake of leaving his valuable record collection with a former girlfriend.
2 N‑COUNT A collection of stories, poems, or articles is a number of them published in one book. □ [+ of ] The institute has assembled a collection of essays from foreign affairs experts.
3 N‑COUNT A collection of things is a group of things. □ [+ of ] Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.
4 N‑COUNT A fashion designer's new collection consists of the new clothes they have designed for the next season.
5 N‑UNCOUNT Collection is the act of collecting something from a place or from people. □ Money can be sent to any one of 22,000 agents worldwide for collection. □ [+ of ] …computer systems to speed up collection of information.
6 N‑COUNT If you organize a collection for charity, you collect money from people to give to charity. □ [+ for ] I asked my headmaster if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.
7 N‑COUNT A collection is money that is given by people in church during some Christian services.
col|le c|tion box (collection boxes ) N‑COUNT A collection box is a box or tin that is used to collect money for charity. [AM ]
col|lec|tive ◆◇◇ /kəle kt I v/ (collectives )
1 ADJ [ADJ n] Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people. □ It was a collective decision. □ The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief. ● col|lec|tive|ly ADV □ The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
2 ADJ [ADJ n] A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has. □ Their collective volume wasn't very large. ● col|lec|tive|ly ADV [ADV with v] □ In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
3 ADJ [ADJ n] The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them. □ Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences. ● col|lec|tive|ly ADV [ADV with v] □ …other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).
4 N‑COUNT A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits. [BUSINESS ] □ He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
col|le c|tive ba r|gain|ing N‑UNCOUNT When a trade union engages in collective bargaining , it has talks with an employer about its members' pay and working conditions. [BUSINESS ]
col|le c|tive nou n (collective nouns ) N‑COUNT A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
col|le c|tive un|co n|scious N‑SING In psychology, the collective unconscious consists of the basic ideas and images that all people are believed to share because they have inherited them.
col|lec|ti|vise /kəle kt I va I z/ → see collectivize
col|lec|tiv|ism /kəle kt I v I zəm/ N‑UNCOUNT Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
col|lec|tiv|ist /kəle kt I v I st/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] Collectivist means relating to collectivism. □ …collectivist ideals.
col|lec|ti|vize /kəle kt I va I z/ (collectivizes , collectivizing , collectivized ) in BRIT, also use collectivise VERB If farms or factories are collectivized , they are brought under state ownership and control, usually by combining a number of small farms or factories into one large one. □ [be V -ed] Most large businesses were collectivized at the start of the war. □ [V n] He forced the country to collectivize agriculture. □ [V -ed] …large collectivised farms. ● col|lec|tivi|za|tion /kəle kt I va I ze I ʃ ə n/ N‑UNCOUNT □ [+ of ] …the collectivisation of agriculture.
col|lec|tor /kəle ktə r / (collectors )