2. Noun. (accounting of an account) A state being beyond merely past due. ¹
3. Noun. (accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Collections
1. collection [n] - See also: collection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collections
Literary usage of Collections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"Bibliographies are too often mere collections of names, series of titles which
form a catalogue whose value varies with the knowledge possessed as to each ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"REMARKS AND Collections. §buum cinque. THOMAS HEARNE. VOL. XCV. Sept. 23 (Sun.),.
The Church of Old Windsor in Berks ..."
3. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1886)
"REMARKS AND Collections. ... collections for a History of Leicestershire, and
will send himself several corrections of the Additions to ..."
4. Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica by Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols (1837)
"Founded on the Collections of Adam Wolley, of Matlock, Esq. in the British Museum,
MS. Add. 6697, p. 434, with' numerous Additions and Corrections, ..."