Collection

Collection or Collections may refer to:

  • Collection (abstract data type), the abstract concept of collections in computer science
  • Collection of payment, the actions of a creditor seeking to recoup a debt; this may be handled by a Collection agency
  • Collection (museum), objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum
  • Collection (horse), a term referring to the horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand
  • Collection (Oxford colleges), a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections
  • Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department
  • Collection (racehorse), an Irish-bred, Hong Kong based Thoroughbred racehorse
  • The regional executive units of the former HM Customs and Excise (a UK government department, now part of HMRC). e.g. Southern England Collection, South London & Thames Collection

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Famous quotes containing the word collection:

    “You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.”
    —Griffin Jay, and Harold Young. Stephen Banning (Dick Foran)

    “We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
    —18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)

    “Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
    —Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)