Used in a Sentence

collections

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for collections.

Editorial note

The thread is filled with people who are against recycling at collections points.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of collections gathered in one view.

noun

(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

noun

(accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for collections.

noun

(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

noun

(accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.

Example sentences

1

The thread is filled with people who are against recycling at collections points.

2

Or do you mean for Java it's better to use an imperative-style with mutating collections?

3

Its absolutely amazing the vast collections inside of Museum storage, most items will hardly ever see display.

4

Their books are out of copyright and the collections own the photographs that they took of them.

5

Le Guin's writing about Lord of the Rings in The Wave in the Mind, one of her nonfiction collections.

6

But generic code is just always going to be cray-cray (See: Haskell lenses, C++ Boost, Scala collections).

7

While it does avoid GC, it's mostly a faster way to share data between threads than the builtin concurrent collections.

8

This is a great collections of essays, I'd say bed time reading for the budding entrepreneur and/or VC.

9

React creates an impedance mismatch between how it is supposed to work(unidirectional data-flow + immutable collections) and how javascript actually works(everything's mutable).

10

The one thing I remember about Goldman Sachs is that they have their own collections library for Java.

11

By comparison, old-school iterating through collections is often much more difficult to refactor.

12

With the book collections in the original article, copyright is very clear.

Quote examples

1

Note: "library" here refers to actual libraries with books, not the programming kind, and "collections" as in "museum collection".

2

I doubt any legal team will just chase some random around into collections because "loser pays"

3

She's spot on with "don’t confuse popularity with engagement." It's not just special collections that end up as entertaining "wink wink nudge nudge nudge" content currency, but pretty much anything.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use collections in a sentence?

The thread is filled with people who are against recycling at collections points.

What does collections mean?

(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

What part of speech is collections?

collections is commonly used as noun.