As nouns the difference between dunning and collection
is that
dunning is attempt to collect a debt while
collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
As a verb dunning
is .
dunning English
Noun
Attempt to collect a debt.
- He asked his attorney to send her a dunning letter.
Verb
(head)
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collection English
Noun
( en noun)
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
* (William Whewell)
- Collections of moisture.
* Dunglison
- A purulent collection .
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Multiple related objects associated as a group.
* , chapter=5
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients
, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
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The activity of collecting.
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(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Derived terms
* collection agency
* collection plate
* minicollection
* take up a collection
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