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"collect" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often gather (6 letters).
Definitions
payable by the recipient on delivery
Word origin
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
Used in a sentence
“Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.”
“The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.”
“A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Bring in”7 letters
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