collection

[kuh-lek-shuhn] / kəˈlɛk ʃən /

NOUN

group, accumulation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assemblage assortment compilation lot number selection set store

STRONG

acquiring acquisition agglomeration anthology assembling assembly batch caboodle clump cluster collation combination company congeries congregation convocation crowd cumulation digest gathering heap hoard kit levy mass medley mess miscellany mobilization muster omnibus pile quantity stack stock stockpile

WEAK

accumulating amassing amassment bringing together obtaining securing

Antonyms

STRONG

division individual separation

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Court records show Buzzard has faced financial instability in recent years, including a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing and multiple civil collections cases.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her collection of essays “Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets” was published to wide acclaim in 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal

Salman Rushdie’s new story collection, ‘The Eleventh Hour,’ explores mortality through five inventive stories blending realism and magic.

From Los Angeles Times

I wanted to come in and really bring back the joyous part of their collection.

From Los Angeles Times

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