collect

To gather together; amass.

Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.

To get; particularly, get from someone.

A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.

To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

John Henry collects stamps.

I don't think he collects as much as hoards.

To pick up or fetch

Can you collect me from the airport?

To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.

With payment due from the recipient.

I had to call collect.