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Definition of collect adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

collect

adjective

/kəˈlekt/

/kəˈlekt/

(North American English)

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(of a phone call) paid for by the person who receives the call
- to make a collect call
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Collect is used with these nouns:
call
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French collecter or medieval Latin collectare, from Latin collect- ‘gathered together’, from the verb colligere, from col- ‘together’ + legere ‘choose or collect’.

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