(grammar) A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals. Examples: a school of fish, a pride of lions.

In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. / A person who is employed to collect payments. / A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

plural of collection / (accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due. / (accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

Of, or relating to a college, or college students. / Collegial.

(Canada) another name for a high school (e.g. some high schools are called collegiates rather than high schools)

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. / Tending to collect; forming a collection. / Having plurality of origin or authority.

A farm owned by a collection of people. / (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community. / (grammar) A collective noun or name.

Of, relating to, or ruled by colleagues. / (Roman Catholicism) Ruled by bishops having equal power. / Of or relating to a college or its students; collegiate.

(politics) A body of electors empowered to elect someone to a particular office, such as the Holy Roman Emperor or the President of the United States. / Alternative letter-case form of Electoral College.