Collection vs. Recovery — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Collection and Recovery
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Collection
The action or process of collecting someone or something
She left the envelope in the office for collection
Refuse collection
The collection of data
Recovery
The act, process, duration, or an instance of recovering.
Collection
A group of things or people
A rambling collection of houses
Recovery
A return to a normal or healthy condition.
Collection
College examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.
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Recovery
The act of obtaining usable substances from unusable sources.
Collection
The act or process of collecting.
Recovery
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
Collection
A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
Recovery
A return to normal health.
Collection
A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer
Promoted the summer collection in the store window.
Recovery
A return to former status or position.
Collection
An accumulation; a deposit
A collection of dust on the piano.
Recovery
The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
Collection
A collecting of money, as in church.
Recovery
The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
Collection
The sum so collected.
Recovery
(economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
Collection
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
Recovery
(finance) The recovery of debt.
Collection
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
He has a superb coin collection.
Recovery
(legal) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
Collection
The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
Recovery
(mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
Collection
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
Recovery
(gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.
Collection
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
Recovery
The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
Collection
(law) Debt collection.
Recovery
Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.
Collection
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Recovery
The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
Collection
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Recovery
The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.
Collection
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Recovery
In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.
Collection
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Recovery
Act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
Collection
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Recovery
Act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack.
Collection
That which is collected
Recovery
Return to an original state;
The recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid
Collection
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
Recovery
Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
Collection
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Recovery
The act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
Collection
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Collection
A publication containing a variety of works
Collection
Request for a sum of money;
An appeal to raise money for starving children
Collection
The act of gathering something together
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