to get money which is owed to you by making the person who owes it pay to take things away from a place used to describe a phone call which the person receiving the call agrees to pay for verbto get money which is owed to you by making the person who owes it payUsageto collect a debtto go and make someone pay a debtto take things away from a place ExampleWe have to collect the stock from the warehouse.adverb, adjectiveused to describe a phone call which the person receiving the call agrees to pay for