collect

adjective

1
make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
call collect
send a package collect

1
a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

1
assemble or get together
gather some stones
pull your thoughts together
2
get or bring together
accumulate evidence
3
call for and obtain payment of
we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
he collected the rent
4
get or gather together
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
5
gather or collect
You can get the results on Monday
She picked up the children at the day care center

Also useful for “collect”:Unscrambler— Rearrange the letters in “collect”