Collection

Definition

collection /kǝ'lekʃn/ n ၁။ [C, U] သိမ္းျခင္း။ There are two collections a day from this letter-box (ie It is emptied twice a day). ❍ The council is responsible for refuse collection. ၂။ [C] စုေဆာင္းသိမ္းဆည္းထားသည့္ ပစၥည္းမ်ား။ a stamp/coin/record collection ❍ This painting comes from his private collection. ၃။ ေပါင္းခ်ဳပ္။ a collection of critical essays. ၄။ [C] ေရာင္းရန္ အဝတ္အထည္ အသစ္ အဆန္းမ်ား။ You are invited to view our autumn collection. ၅။ [C] (က) အလႉေငြေကာက္ခံျခင္း။ The collection will be taken (up)/made after the sermon. ❍ a collection for famine relief. (ခ) ထိုသို႔ေကာက္ခံရရိွေငြ။ a large collection. ၆။ [C] အစုအပံု။ တစ္စုတစ္အုပ္။ a collection of junk/rubbish ❍ There was an odd collection of guests at the party.

Examples

1. [a vast/extensive collection] : A book borrowed from Jon’s vast collection
2. A stamp collection
3. [collection of] : A collection of baseball caps
4. The gallery houses one of the finest collections of impressionist art.
5. Dior will launch its spring collection next week.
6. A collection of short stories
7. The collection of household waste
8. Your new glasses are awaiting collection.
9. [collection of] : The collection and analysis of information
10. [a house-to-house/door-to-door collection] : The house-to-house collection raised £255.41.
11. Tax collection
12. [collection of] : A motley collection of protesters and student groups