collect

Examples

• All

• I want to make a collect call to Eddie moscone from Jack Walsh.

  Midnight Run (1988)

• Then he dialed the operator and placed a collect call to Curtis Paschal.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I'd like to place a collect call to America, please.

  The Parent Trap (1998)

• I have a collect call from Clarke.

  Dirty Girl (2010)

• I have an emergency collect call from your son, Augusten.

  Running with Scissors (2006)

• Female operator on tape: "You have a collect call from Huntsville, Texas, from ..."

  Fiction book (2002)

• This is the US calling with a collect call from Burt Munro, do you accept?

  The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

• I have a collect call for Samantha from Jerry Welbach.

  The Mexican (2001)

• WILL YOU ACCEPT A COLLECT CALL FROM MAX BRACKETT?

  Mad City (1997)

• The priest led the congregation in a collect before the reading of the Gospel.

Synonyms

P

prayer

vscollect

187 1.7

A set of words said during a religious service

is a short formal liturgical text used before the lesson in a service

Idioms

C

to collect one's thoughts

6 4.3

To take time to put your ideas in order and calm down before you speak

N

not collect $200

• Informal

9.8

You cannot get money or a reward you expected

Compounds

C

collect call

• US

20 3.6

A phone call where the person who answers pays the cost

How Fixed

liturgy

26 8.9

litany

• Formal

5 8.7

prayer

187 1.7

collect

• Specialized

36 9.9

Surface Forms

Etymology