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Another word for collection

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collection

n.

The act of collecting
gathering, finding, making a collection, completing a collection, collecting, compilation, recovering, bringing together, searching for, assembling, amassing, compiling, acquisition, obtaining, securing, discovering, accumulating, acquiring, roundup; see also accumulation 1.
That which has been collected
accumulation, assortment, specimens, samples, examples, extracts, citations, models, corpus, agglomeration, pile, stack, group, assemblage, set, compilation, mass, quantity, selection, array, battery, treasury, anthology, omnibus, garland, medley, miscellany, hodgepodge, aggregation, combination, number, symposium, festschrift, ana, chrestomathy, compendium, collectanea, amassment, store, stock, cache, hoard, holdings, digest, arrangement, concentration, discoveries, finds, collation, batch, mess, lot, heap, bunch; see also gathering, heap.

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Another word for collection

noun

A number of individuals making up or considered a unit:
array, band², batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch², group, knot, lot, party, set². See group
A quantity accumulated:
accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, congeries, cumulation, gathering, mass. See collect

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Cynthia just shook her head in amazement at the collection of gear.
My favorite cookbook, Apicius, is a 1,500-year-old collection of recipes from ancient Rome.
Any time you can move data collection from humans to computers, you get vast improvements in efficiency.
Fred and his juvenile helpers had located a picture of Reverend Martin and his wife in an old museum collection of early Ouray papers and photos.
The collection of these excise duties as well as the sale of matches, tobacco and gunpowder to retailers, is assigned to a special service in each department subordinated to a central administration.

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