A period of hostile relations between rivals where direct open warfare between them is largely undesired and avoided.

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

A surname originating as an occupation. / An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States. / A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

(slang, US) Columbia, South Carolina

(law enforcement, slang) A criminal investigation that has not been solved after a considerable time but remains “on the books” and may be reopened when new evidence appears.

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)

(pathology) inflammation of the colon. / (medicine, informal) Short for ulcerative colitis.

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.