Collections vs Bags - What's the difference?
collections | bags |
(accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.
(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.
(Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
* 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice ,
* 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air ,
* 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets ,
* 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail ,
(uncountable) Eye circles.
(bag)
As nouns the difference between collections and bags
is that collections is plural of lang=en while bags is plural of lang=en.As a verb bags is
to reserve for oneself.collections
English
Noun
(head)- We have sent your account to collections .
- Sorry, but you'll have to talk with collections .
bags
English
Etymology 1
FromAlternative forms
* baggsVerb
(es)page 81,
- So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.
page 66,
- Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
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- Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
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- ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.