Noun

• S: (n) collect (a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

Verb

• S: (v) roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard (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"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) run up (pile up (debts or scores))
• S: (v) corral (collect or gather) "corralling votes for an election"
• S: (v) collect, pull in (get or bring together) "accumulate evidence"
• S: (v) archive, file away (put into an archive)
• S: (v) beat up, drum up, rally (gather) "drum up support"
• S: (v) scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up (gather (money or other resources) together over time) "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
• S: (v) nickel-and-dime (accumulate gradually) "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family"
• S: (v) lump, chunk (put together indiscriminately) "lump together all the applicants"
• S: (v) bale (make into a bale) "bale hay"
• S: (v) catch (take in and retain) "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater"
• S: (v) fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability) "fund a medical care plan"
• S: (v) fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) collect, take in (call for and obtain payment of) "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
• S: (v) gather, garner, collect, pull together (assemble or get together) "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
• S: (v) collect, pull in (get or bring together) "accumulate evidence"
• S: (v) collect, pick up, gather up, call for (gather or collect) "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"

Adjective

• S: (adj) collect, cod (payable by the recipient on delivery) "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"

Adverb

• S: (adv) collect (make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays) "call collect"; "send a package collect"